On Sat, 2008.12.27, 362, Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote: > Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > I wonder why so much memory is used and my machine keeps on swapping. > > I don't have many applications: iceweasel, liferea, a few xterm's, and > > some small background processes. > [snip] > > Once iceweasel has really quit, everything is back to normal: > > > > CPU[|| 3.2%] Tasks: 106 total, 1 running > > Mem[||||||||||||| 52/249MB] Load average: 0.29 0.96 1.87 > > Swp[|||||||| 129/511MB] Uptime: 5 days, 01:20:48 > > You already have an answer: iceweasel eats large amounts memory. You already > have 'MEM: > 62%' at iceweasel only in real memory, it seems it also use some swap on your > machine.
I think firefox/iceweasel simply uses hideous amounts of memory. It seems like galeon also uses lots of memory. Could this be because of the Gecko rendering engine? Midori seems promising and I hope that it will soon be ready for productive use.
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