Re: mozilla - 5 processes using 149Mb

[Sven LUTHER <luther@dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr>]

On Mon, Jun 18, 2001 at 05:07:47AM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 18, 2001 at 02:49:22PM +0200, David N. Welton wrote:
> 
> > I think the missing information this person wants to know is that
> > under linux, threads get seperate pid's.  It's in the manual, but
> > finding the right manual might not always be easy.  So anyway, to
> > answer the question, yes, they are threads, and mozilla is a
> > tremendous hog.
> 
> its a pig but its not a 149MB pig.  oddly enough mozilla is leaner
> then NS4, NS4 would start at 19MB but quickly bloat to an excess of 40
> and 50MB, mozilla i have never seen stay higher then 32MB or so.  
> 
> the slowness is that garbage XUL interface thing mozilla uses, galeon
> solves that problem very nicely.  (as does skipstone)

But there is no galeon debian package, isn't it ? I know there are unnofficial
packages though, the galeon guys distribute them i think, but no official
debian packages. skipstone is nice though. (Still eating 20MB though, if i
read top correctly, but then ram is cheap :)))

Friendly,

Sven Luther