On Tue, 2006-03-21 at 21:25, John Rice wrote: > Hi - wanted to see if anyone has any thoughts on how to minimize > browser memory usage on nevada, in particular Mozilla 1.7+ and Firefox > 1.5+
I would love to know. Other than not using them... > Problem > -------- > Problem is that in a multi user thin client environment on a Solaris > 10 system we are seeing Mozilla 1.7 and Firefox in particular eat huge > amounts of RAM. Having Firefox with heap size of over 100Megs is quite > common. I think you're missing a zero in there! (And one problem we used to see on our SunRay servers was that because users don't have to log out, they never do. So runaway programs - either cpu or memory hogs - don't get naturally reaped every evening.) > As an experiment just: > $pmap -x `pgrep firefox-bin` | grep total - 4th column is the private > memory for the process. ... > total Kb 88848 45972 12812 - How do you get it that low? At startup I see: total Kb 103932 64020 31824 - And have to kill it at least once a week when it expands to over a gigabyte. It seems to bloat Xorg as well. At least, I'm assuming it's firefox. I don't have anything else that appears to be running amok. And the only way to clear that is to log out :-( -- -Peter Tribble L.I.S., University of Hertfordshire - http://www.herts.ac.uk/ http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/
