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

[Mike Meredith]

On Sun, 05 Mar 2006 12:55:14 -0500, Phil Stracchino wrote:
> 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.

Hmm. Firefox is currently consuming 52Mbytes of 'real' memory on my IRIX
box according to 'gmemusage'. Of course the different memory sizes of
processes could well be caused by the different memory handling of
different libc implementations. Some may be more conservative about
returning unused memory to the operating system (calling free() is only
the first step).