[gentoo-user] firefox is very memory hungry

2005-10-19 Thread Bruno Lustosa
Just had a look at 'top' here, and was astonished by its output: PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 19199 isabel.s 15 0 511m 204m 16m S 0.0 27.2 7:49.58 firefox-bin 19263 isabel.s 16 0 511m 204m 16m S 0.0 27.2 0:00.00 firefox-bin 19264 isabel.s 16 0 511m 204m 16m S 0.0 27.2

Re: [gentoo-user] firefox is very memory hungry

2005-10-19 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Wed, 19 Oct 2005 12:57:02 -0200 Bruno Lustosa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just had a look at 'top' here, and was astonished by its output: PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 19328 isabel.s 15 0 511m 204m 16m S 0.0 27.2 0:02.47 firefox-bin [x4] 22668 lustosa 15 0

Re: [gentoo-user] firefox is very memory hungry

2005-10-19 Thread Mike Williams
On Wednesday 19 October 2005 15:57, Bruno Lustosa wrote: I can't understand how firefox evolved from small and fast phoenix to this memory hungry beast that has a virtual space of half a gigabyte. Google for firefox memory leak -- Mike Williams -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] firefox is very memory hungry

2005-10-19 Thread Richard Fish
Bruno Lustosa wrote: Yes, but what caught my eyes was not the virtual address space. The resident portion (i.e., what is really allocated on real memory) is huge for that first instance. 204mb is way too much for a firefox with 4 tabs open. I'm not so sure that the resident memory number

Re: [gentoo-user] firefox is very memory hungry

2005-10-19 Thread Joshua Schmidlkofer
you're looking at threads. they aren't really taking up 16m x 4 of memory... try enabling nptl, and re-emerging glibcIf your going that route (which i highly recommend) rebuild w/ nptl and nptlonly.thanks, joshua