Re: Firefox 3 still hogs memory

[»Q« <boxcars@xxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 26 Jun 2008 23:22:52 -0700
clay <cl@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> »Q« wrote:
> > On Wed, 25 Jun 2008 18:14:07 -0700
> > clay <clay@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 
> >> You ought to see the Linux noobs convulse when they see their new 
> >> install using 90% of available memory just sitting there doing
> >> nothing...
> > 
> > I'm not quite a newbie, and that would surprise the heck out of me.
> > What distro, and what's using all the RAM?
> > 
> > [followup set to mozilla.general]
> 
> Ubuntu.
> Everything.
> 
> 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

Ah, thanks.  Those newbies shouldn't be looking at top until they know
how memory caching works.  ;)

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