On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 06:17:50AM +0100, Holger Dörner wrote: > > 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). my main box is also a k7 (athlon XP 2mumble-hundred) with 440 mb of ram (video stole some) and it runs like a champ... though it's due for an upgrade for reasons other than processing power... > > 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. run iceweasel in safe mode or use some other method to disable all the extra stuff and see what happens. I had trouble for a while with sun-java-1.6-plugin pegging my cpu (even on my core2duo laptop too) for no apparent reason. A downgrade to 1.5 fixed that. So poke aroudn with your extensions and plugins and methodically disable and renable them looking for the culprit there. A
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