Conrad Knauer wrote: > > I'm going to guess, without seeing his machine, that it's something > with Firefox... it could be a malfunctioning extension, it could be > some script on an otherwise normal page... I would try backing up my > ~/.mozilla folder and seeing if running FF fresh solves the problem. >
At the risk of offending most by stating the obvious, note that firefox -- especially when extensions are loaded -- has a continuously increasing memory footprint; even when you're not doing anything other than leaving it open on a few tabs. And sites using javascript (especially those with lots of ever changing ads) are notorious for memory leaks. On my MS Windows machine, after a couple of weeks of having firefox continuously open, the memory use goes up to about 1.2GB (the hint is that the machine ceases to repeat characters in a timely fashion). Linux isn't quite as bad, but not by much -- below is the output from top: PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 8209 pgoetz 20 0 1877m 895m 45m S 10 27.3 576:27.11 firefox 7668 pgoetz 20 0 160m 17m 12m S 1 0.5 42:56.50 pulseaudio pulseaudio? I'm not even using any audio applications and hardly ever do! The linux kernel is a lean, mean, fighting machine. X windows? Not so much. KDE and gnome? Don't ask. Firefox and friends? See above. The bottom line is if you're not running X, an Intel 486 with 256KB of RAM is probably a perfectly adequate platform. -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
