On 2008-12-27 09:00:57 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 12/27/08 06:59, Vincent Lefevre wrote: >> Here's an output of htop several minutes after quitting iceweasel (it's >> still running to do some clean up, I suppose). Below, the processes are >> sorted by MEM%, but none of them are taking more that 4% CPU time. > > What did you use to generate this report?
As said above, htop. >> CPU[||| 5.2%] Tasks: 112 total, 1 running >> Mem[|||||||||||||||||||||233/249MB] Load average: 2.71 2.99 2.75 >> Swp[|||||||||||||||||| 298/511MB] Uptime: 5 days, 01:10:57 >> >> PID USER PRI NI VIRT RES SHR S CPU% MEM% TIME+ Command >> 30542 lefevre 20 0 466M 154M 2804 S 0.0 62.0 0:00.22 >> /usr/lib/iceweasel >> 30513 lefevre 20 0 466M 154M 2804 D 0.0 62.0 37:15.22 >> /usr/lib/iceweasel >> 30520 lefevre 20 0 466M 154M 2804 S 0.0 62.0 0:00.00 >> /usr/lib/iceweasel >> 30519 lefevre 20 0 466M 154M 2804 S 0.0 62.0 0:01.08 >> /usr/lib/iceweasel > > I think it's interesting (in a bad way...) that there are 6 individual > iceweasel processes running, since no matter how many IW windows I have > open, there's only one firefox-bin (or, sometimes, xulrunner-stub) > process. I forgot to say, this is on a PowerPC machine. And it has been reported that the PowerPC build of glibc lacks NPTL support, hence the different processes. (Note: I've only one iceweasel window.) > RAM, at least in the US, is dirt cheap, selling at NewEgg for around > 10$/GB. Unless, of course, this is an unexpandable laptop. ... which is my case (old powerbook). Note: I plan to replace it, but inefficient software will remain inefficient. -- Vincent Lefèvre <vinc...@vinc17.org> - Web: <http://www.vinc17.org/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <http://www.vinc17.org/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / Arenaire project (LIP, ENS-Lyon) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org