Re: Epiphany a memory hog

["Tshepang Lekhonkhobe" <tshepang@gmail.com>]

On 11/1/06, Gnu_Raiz <Gnu-Raiz@midsouth.rr.com> wrote:
> "Tshepang Lekhonkhobe" <tshepang@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >I've been running Epiphany-browser on Fluxbox on my minimal 128MB PIII
> >system for 6 days non-stop. Virtual memory usage now stands at 220MB
> >according to top.
>
> It seems that most Mozilla based browsers like Epiphany, Firefox use lots of
> memory.  You might want to see the other threads in this list see what
> SeaMonkey can do for you.
>
> Also you might want to see what xorg is eating up, on low memory machines like
> that restarting xorg, once a week might be a good thing. Also tweaking your
> browsers cache, and history file might be a good suggestion as well.

Xorg started at 50MB and after the week, an innocent 70MB. So I'm not
worried about it. The history thing helped a bit, saving about 20MB.
I'll wait and see after another seven days.