Re: memory problem
On 2008-12-27 09:00:57 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 12/27/08 06:59, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
>> Here's an output of htop several minutes after quitting iceweasel (it's
>> still running to do some clean up, I suppose). Below, the processes are
>> sorted by MEM%, but none of them are taking more that 4% CPU time.
>
> What did you use to generate this report?
As said above, htop.
>> CPU[||| 5.2%] Tasks: 112 total, 1 running
>> Mem[|||||||||||||||||||||233/249MB] Load average: 2.71 2.99 2.75
>> Swp[|||||||||||||||||| 298/511MB] Uptime: 5 days, 01:10:57
>>
>> PID USER PRI NI VIRT RES SHR S CPU% MEM% TIME+ Command
>> 30542 lefevre 20 0 466M 154M 2804 S 0.0 62.0 0:00.22 /usr/lib/iceweasel
>> 30513 lefevre 20 0 466M 154M 2804 D 0.0 62.0 37:15.22 /usr/lib/iceweasel
>> 30520 lefevre 20 0 466M 154M 2804 S 0.0 62.0 0:00.00 /usr/lib/iceweasel
>> 30519 lefevre 20 0 466M 154M 2804 S 0.0 62.0 0:01.08 /usr/lib/iceweasel
>
> I think it's interesting (in a bad way...) that there are 6 individual
> iceweasel processes running, since no matter how many IW windows I have
> open, there's only one firefox-bin (or, sometimes, xulrunner-stub)
> process.
I forgot to say, this is on a PowerPC machine. And it has been reported
that the PowerPC build of glibc lacks NPTL support, hence the different
processes. (Note: I've only one iceweasel window.)
> RAM, at least in the US, is dirt cheap, selling at NewEgg for around
> 10$/GB. Unless, of course, this is an unexpandable laptop.
... which is my case (old powerbook).
Note: I plan to replace it, but inefficient software will remain
inefficient.
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