On Sat, 2008-12-27 at 17:38 -0600, green wrote:
> 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. I also have noticed that Iceweasel uses a lot of memory, especially when I watch videos. That's why I currently use epiphany. I'm agree with you Midori seems to have very good performances concerning memory consummations.
