> Having discovered the gnome system monitor, I seldom run top anymore. > But I have a gigabyte of RAM, about half of which is "user" and about > half of which is "cache". > > Iceweasel pushes processor utilization to 100 percent; I would like to > find a browser which is more economical. > > I found a cheap AMD dual-core processor, and memory is cheap. All I > need to find now is a no-hassle "plain vanilla" AM2 motherboard, > preferably with on-board video. > > RLH Hi Russel, My box here is an 7 years old AMD K7 "Thunderbird" with 512mb of RAM. With Iceweasel and Evolution running (on Gnome), CPU is at 5% and RAM is filled only at 174mb. I even play games and watch movies on this machine without problems (exept for the newer, hardware-hungry games). You don't play and you don't watch, so I can not understand why your box should be too slow. But I think you should check if there are things running in background consuming system memory, and check why Iceweasel is always running at 100% CPU. I'm shure, if these two things are fixed, your box will run very fine! Regards, Holger
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