Re: browsers have become memory hogs
On Thursday 10 April 2008 14:14, andy wrote:
> Thierry Chatelet wrote:
> > On Thursday 10 April 2008 21:45:32 Ron Johnson wrote:
> >> On 04/10/08 14:35, tom arnall wrote:
> >>> all of a sudden browsers have become memory hogs on my system (>95%).
> >>> i've
> >>
> >> I don't see how a single process could use 95% of memory on a 32-bit
> >> system.
> >>
> >>> tried iceweasel, opera, galeon. all with the same result. i'm running
> >>> debian etch.
> >>
> >> Have you performed any updates lately? Installed non-debianized
> >> software?
> >>
> >> How long does it take for the browsers to suck up all that
> >> un-specified amount of memory?
> >>
> >> How many tabs and windows do you have open?
> >>
> >> --
> >> Ron Johnson, Jr.
> >> Jefferson LA USA
> >>
> >> We want... a Shrubbery!!
> >
> > I got the same problem-sid- and it is npviewer which is eating something
> > up to 17% CPU per tab. I think I am going to the thing...
> > Thierry
>
> I have been running Iceweasel in the background for the last 3 days. I
> am running approx 3% swap (on 1 GB allocated) and according to top
> Firefox-bin uses ~10.6% mem. This is just running FF in the background
> (minimised)
> A
and what does CPU% look like?
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