Hi Eric, Jan, *! I have the same problems. Here some numbers:
firefox, freshly started with 7 tabs opened (userfriendly, dilbert, 2x html-only pages, phppgadmin and 2x bugs.debian.org) xrestop: res-base Wins GCs Fnts Pxms Misc Pxm mem Other Total PID Identifier 3400000 240 151 1 263 203 42087K 14K 42102K ? Firefox ps aux: USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND david 1748 1.2 4.6 127788 48284 ? Sl 15:50 0:11 /usr/lib/firefo After opening a new tab showing http://www.edv-bus.at/munin/black.co.at/comparison-week.html res-base Wins GCs Fnts Pxms Misc Pxm mem Other Total PID Identifier 3400000 252 151 1 366 255 100389K 16K 100405K ? Munin :: black USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND david 1748 1.3 4.8 129824 50336 ? Sl 15:50 0:13 /usr/lib/firefo After closing the tab: res-base Wins GCs Fnts Pxms Misc Pxm mem Other Total PID Identifier 3400000 242 151 1 366 258 100489K 16K 100505K ? #345382 - fire USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND david 1748 1.3 4.8 129824 50356 ? Sl 15:50 0:14 /usr/lib/firefo Creating a new user and using firefox there (with only firefox-webdeveloper and flashplugin-nonfree installed)) this behaviour can be reproduced: empty firefox: res-base Wins GCs Fnts Pxms Misc Pxm mem Other Total PID Identifier 2600000 91 32 1 72 70 1530K 5K 1536K ? Firefox Centra USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND david 4464 8.3 2.9 81136 30776 ? Sl 16:14 0:01 /usr/lib/firefo munin overview loaded: res-base Wins GCs Fnts Pxms Misc Pxm mem Other Total PID Identifier 2600000 101 35 1 169 78 111966K 6K 111972K ? Munin :: black USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND david 4464 5.5 3.2 109736 33912 ? Sl 16:14 0:02 /usr/lib/firefo Going back to the default homepage (google) res-base Wins GCs Fnts Pxms Misc Pxm mem Other Total PID Identifier 2600000 105 35 1 189 83 112340K 6K 112347K ? Mozilla Firefo USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND david 4464 4.7 3.2 109736 33916 ? Sl 16:14 0:02 /usr/lib/firefo Opening a new tab and closing the old one didn't change the memory usage significantly. Regards, David -- - hallo... wie gehts heute? - *hust* gut *rotz* *keuch* - gott sei dank kommunizieren wir über ein septisches medium ;) -- Matthias Leeb, Uni f. angewandte Kunst, 2005-02-15
