***BOGO*** Re: Firefox 3 still hogs memory

[clay <cl@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dennis wrote:
>...
>>
>> ct@wimp:~$ top
>>
>> top - 23:21:04 up 26 min,  3 users,  load average: 0.54, 1.09, 0.78
>> Tasks: 141 total,   1 running, 139 sleeping,   0 stopped,   1 zombie
>> Cpu(s):  3.0%us,  1.5%sy,  0.0%ni, 83.3%id, 11.1%wa,  0.5%hi,  0.7%si, 
>> 0.0%st
>> Mem:   1035624k total,   979608k used,    56016k free,    12728k buffers
>> Swap:  2152668k total,    17800k used,  2134868k free,   580408k cached
>>
> [...]
> 
> Why do you have 2 gig of swap with only 1 gig of ram? A half gig would 
> have been plenty, by the 'old school' standard.
> 
> Try 'ps aux', it will give you a snapshot of what is using what at the 
> given moment.
> 
> Does your machine feel sluggish? If not then you are probably not 
> swapping much. With one gig of ram you really shouldn't be swapping much 
> unless your are messing with audio or video apps. If you are not 
> swapping then it is fine for your ram to 'appear' to be 'used up'. It is 
> most likely free just not reallocated as such yet. As apps need ram it 
> will be reallocated as needed.
> 
> Would mozilla.dev.platforms.linux be a better place to discuss this?
> 
> Dennis

It's the old (obsolete) Windows standard of swap=2xram.
I've used up to a half gig of swap on occasion. When MythTV is 
commflagging, transcoding, etc. and hellanzb is unraring something, it 
gets a little poky... when load average is up around 21.00.

Thanks for reminding me about ps aux. I can see Adobe reader is no 
better in Firefox on Linux than it is in Windows. View a PDF in Firefox 
and acroread stays running after the browser is closed.
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