On Fri, 19 Nov 2010 23:21:23 +0000 (UTC) Camaleón <noela...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 19 Nov 2010 16:13:24 -0500, Celejar wrote: > > > On Fri, 19 Nov 2010 08:03:44 +0000 (UTC) Camaleón wrote: > > > >> Mozilla products are memory/CPU hogs, yes. I hope newer versions can > >> correct that. > > > > I often wonder about this; IIRC, FF used to advertise itself as > > "lightweight". Does it still do that? Was it ever accurate? > > I'm not in the best position to speak about Mozilla products because I > wouldn't be objective (still using old versions of both, Iceweasel > -3.0.x- and Icedove -2.x-) but true is that Mozilla products (Netscape > Navigator suite) has never been known by its good management of memory :-) > > Is Firefox "lightweight"? Well, it has a small footprint in the system > (~10 MiB, which is not bad for what provides), but overall I'd say "no". > I've worked with konqueror (and now also Epiphany) and konqueror > performed a better job in many aspects, not only with memory management. > > top - 00:18:38 up 16:27, 2 users, load average: 0.12, 0.03, 0.01 > Tasks: 131 total, 3 running, 128 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie > Cpu(s): 1.1%us, 0.2%sy, 0.0%ni, 98.6%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st > Mem: 8201264k total, 1536164k used, 6665100k free, 54368k buffers > Swap: 2104472k total, 0k used, 2104472k free, 832752k cached > > 3369 sm01 20 0 548m 113m 25m S 0 1.4 3:19.36 liferea-bin > > 3466 sm01 20 0 624m 107m 28m S 0 1.3 2:52.77 icedove-bin > > 9712 sm01 20 0 558m 101m 24m S 0 1.3 0:19.99 firefox-bin > ... > > "200" MiB of ram for just 2 applications (mozilla based) is excessive. And > I only have 2 tabs opened :-/ Interesting, thanks. I see similar numbers (although I have many tabs open), but I've never used any other browsers on a regular basis. Celejar -- foffl.sourceforge.net - Feeds OFFLine, an offline RSS/Atom aggregator mailmin.sourceforge.net - remote access via secure (OpenPGP) email ssuds.sourceforge.net - A Simple Sudoku Solver and Generator -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20101122201856.45a2deed.cele...@gmail.com
