Calixto Ong II wrote: > Hi guys, > How much memory does some of the apps in your Ubuntu 5.10 eats up? > Mine Nautilus sometimes eats around 200Mb i have to kill it and when it > reloads it only eat 33mb. > Firefox the worst.. firefox-bin eats 100Mb and i only have 3 tabs open. > Any alternative browser that eats less memory? > Evolution 88MB data-server 64MB Alarm notify 55MB.. can I get rid of > this?
Hi! How did you obtain those values? Linux uses shared libraries and your tool may be double counting the memory used by libraries that Nautilus, for example, uses. A nice blog post [1] explains this fully. [1] http://virtualthreads.blogspot.com/2006/02/understanding-memory-usage-on-linux.html _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
