On Thursday 10 April 2008 19:11, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 01:25:53PM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > > On Thu, April 10, 2008 12:45 pm, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > I don't see how a single process could use 95% of memory on a 32-bit > > > system. > > > > I can. FF2.x was just painful on my laptop. It only has 256Mb and > > what i used to be able to do just a few years ago (Firefox, Thunderbird > > and gaim ne pidgin all open until the machine rebooted) I can barely > > manage for an hour or two now. FF3 has helped but I'm finding that it > > and XFCE4 are the primary hogs of memory. > > > > After a fresh login I'll have about 40-50Mb used, 0 swap. After a > > few hours of FF2.x I'd be maxed on memory and pushing 2/3rds of my 256Mb > > of swap. Close FF and most of the memory and swap go away. FF3 doesn't > > get that high but it still pushes my machine into swap without much > > trouble. What really gets me is after 2-3 days logged in I'll exit > > TBird, FF3 and Pidgin and be right back where I was when I logged in. > > Just XFCE4 loaded. 70-80Mb used, another 30-50Mb in the swap. I log out > > of XFCE4, log back in, 40-50Mb used, 0 swap. :/ > > Yes, it seems that, at least on Etch, there's a memory leak in the GTK2 > widget library common to both FF and XFCE (and others). The leak does > not happen with Konqueror. > > Have you tried Konqueror; you don't need all of KDE. > > Doug.
i've been running epiphany for the last few hours and so far no problem. definitely will try konqueror if e' gives problem. tom arnall -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
