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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.

-- 
Cheers, Bev (Happy Linux User #85683, Slackware 11.0)
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