Re: Firefox 3 still hogs memory
- Date: Sun, 06 Jul 2008 12:43:08 -0700
- From: The Real Bev <bashley101+moz@xxxxxxxxx>
- Subject: Re: Firefox 3 still hogs memory
»Q« wrote:
> clay <cl@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> »Q« wrote:
>> > 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. ;)
Geekporn. When they learn about uptime they'll spend all their time
doing it.
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Cheers, Bev (Happy Linux User #85683, Slackware 11.0)
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