I have found much the same thing. Most all of my RAM goes to a few piggy applications like VMWare, OpenOffice, gimp, and firefox. Some of these like VMWare and gimp are serious applications doing serious work on major data sets; so I can understand their large RAM requirements - BUT firefox!! It is just a pig. (But I like pigs, so I continue to use it.) What is worse it's memory requirements seem to increase with time. I find I have to shut firefox down every few days and restart it to recover memory. Sure glad I don't need to do this VMWare.
David Mandel On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 9:15 AM, Aaron Burt <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 08:47:51AM -0800, Tim wrote: > > <major snippage> >> Switch to a less resource-intensive window manager (i.e. not Gnome or KDE >> based) and try out a few different browsers. > > I hate to disagree, but I did some experiments a couple years ago, and > found that Firefox dominated RAM usage, no matter the desktop environment, > WM, tuning or other things. Everything else was not that significant. > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
