Charles Borner wrote:
>
> Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux 2.2.17-21mdk i686; en-US; m18) Gecko/20001121
>
> After opening Mozilla, I go into GTop and notice that there are four (4)
> instances of Mozilla running. All with identical amounts of memory
> usage. Current usage on my machine as reported by GTop for all 4
> instances combined is well over 400MB right now.
While I agree that Mozilla does use far too much memory, you are
misinterpreting the results of GTop.
Mozilla is a multithreaded application, and under Linux each thread gets
its own pid. So each thread appears in GTop as a separate instance of
Mozilla. Not only that, but those threads *share* their memory usage -
so while it's perfectly correct that each thread is using N Mb [1], they
are the *same* N Mbs. Hence, the total memory usage for Mozilla is the
amount listed for any one of those "instances".
HTH,
Stuart.
[1] I'm guessing N=100 from your figures, although that still seems high
based on my experience of Moz unless you've already done a lot of
browsing (triggering some of Moz's known memory leaks) or scrolled
through a large mail folder (which currently causes horrendous bloat, a
known bug).
