[geeks] And The Linux Weenies Wonder Why They Aren't Mainstream...`

[Phil Stracchino]

Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote:
> Sat, 04 Mar 2006 @ 01:17 -0600, Micah R Ledbetter said:
> 
> 
>>>I have a 2.0GHz CPU and 1GB of RAM, and it is blindly stupid that
>>>surfing the web and running a couple of office applications can kill
>>>my machine.
>>
>>I'm pretty far off topic here, but Firefox isn't *that* bad (for me).  
> 
> 
> I regularly see it run over 200MB.

Are you *certain* that this is Firefox itself, and not library leaks?  I
use Firefox 1.5 myself, but I don't use Gnome (or, at any rate, I don't
use any more of Gnome than the minimum I can get away with to make
Firefox 1.5 run).  And it doesn't ever bloat to 200, 300, 400MB.

I *DO* have some memory leakage problems on the machine.  And it's all
leaking from Gnome libraries.  It did not *start* until I installed the
set of Gnome libraries required by Firefix 1.0, and the leakage was not
tied to Firefox.  Gnome is not just Teh Bloat, it LEAKS bloat.


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