On Mon, Jun 18, 2001 at 10:29:38PM +1200, Alan Macdougall wrote: > > I'm still confused, even after RTFM (very old-skool). There's obviously > no hope. :-) read the mozilla FAQ. people only ask this question every time they look at some linux process viewer and not understand what they are looking at. > The Gnome System Monitor help docs say: "No two processes will have the > same number." Therefore my assumption that the five lines I was seeing > in gtop were separate processes was perhaps reasonable, given that they > all had different PIDs. Threads are not mentioned. does not change the fact that these are threads not separate processes. > Further, the memory usage panel (set to show resident memory) seemed to > be adding the resident memory totals for these threads together to come > up with the 149Mb figure. This absurdly high figure seemed to be borne > out by the incredible disk thrashing that occurred whenever I used > Mozilla for just a short time. that tool is broken then, or you don't understand its output. mozilla is NOT taking 149MB of ram. its taking 29. > Anyway, the bottom line is that on my machine, Mozilla is unusably slow. > Are there any lighter alternatives around? w3m -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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