Re: Memory usage Debian Jessie (stable)

[Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk>]

On Saturday,  9 May 2015 at 15:11, llcfree wrote:
>> On Fri, 2015-05-08 at 13:31 -0600, Bob Proulx wrote:
>> I find the biggest consumer of ram pages on my system to be the web
>
>>  browsers Chromium and Firefox (Iceweasel).  The web has gotten to be a
>>  ram hog and when my machine is in need of memory I exit the web
>>  browsers first.
>
> This is actually becoming a serious problem. Even in debian. Otherwise
> perfectly good computers get short of memory just because browsers (and,
> more generally, graphics) are blowing up without control. 

There are plenty of browsers to choose from in Debian, many of which are
low memory.  Iceweasel (Firefox) is not the best choice necessarily...

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