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>> total Kb 88848 45972 12812 - > > How do you get it that low? At startup I see: total Kb 103932 64020 31824 - I disabled all extensions in Firefox, so it's pretty clean on startup. But it doesn't take long for it to climb up: Current totals after 2hrs surfing to various gnome sites [around about 35 tabs open]: total Kb 414280 371948 336756 - Yep that is 336 Megs !! JR Peter Tribble wrote: >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 :-( > > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/desktop-discuss/attachments/20060327/739a8edc/attachment.html>
