On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 9:17 AM, Matthew Gillen <[email protected]> wrote:
> I've noticed lately that when I unlock my gnome3 session after being > gone for a while (several hours), it takes forever to get me back to a > useable desktop. I initially was blaming gnome-shell, but it appears > the problem is actually firefox forcing the whole system into swap. > > Firefox was using 60% of memory. Killing it and reloading the same set > of tabs makes it use 6.3% of memory (as reported by 'top'). I don't > think it's a particular web page that is going screwy, because it > happens at work and at home, and my set of tabs are completely different > (okay, fine, I use google.com in both environments...) > > Is anyone else seeing this kind of runaway memory usage? > > Matt > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://pegasus.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > You could try Memory Fox. Its an addon for Firefox. I have had decent success with it. HowToGeek.com had an interesting article on Firefox and its memory usage on windows systems. http://www.howtogeek.com/62301/htg-explains-do-firefox-memory-cleaners-actually-work/ Perhaps you could have the same success. _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://pegasus.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
