Re: [SLUG] memory use

From: Eben King (eben01@verizon.net)
Date: Tue Sep 23 2008 - 17:46:36 EDT


On Tue, 23 Sep 2008, blee2@tampabay.rr.com wrote:

> Thus Eben King hast written on Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 05:11:00PM -0400, and, according to prophecy, it shall come to pass that:
>> Are either of these out of line?
>>
>> PID USER NI VIRT RES SHR WCHAN S %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND
>> 7965 eben 0 620m 478m 19m stext S 10 23.6 880:39 firefox-bin
>> 24123 root 0 847m 355m 4288 stext R 4 17.5 46,10 Xorg
>
> Eben,
> You and I abuse our systems in the same way: ;-)
>
> PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
> 25132 leebc 15 0 667m 432m 24m S 3 42.7 1816:54 firefox-bin
> 24952 root 15 0 515m 117m 4628 S 7 11.6 3721:24 Xorg
>
> Mem: 1036564k total, 1014280k used, 22284k free, 13028k buffers
> Swap: 3903776k total, 559636k used, 3344140k free, 119840k cached
>
> with 1 FF window and about 100 tabs.

Jeez, how do you find anything?

> So, while I think these numbers ARE high, it's what I've come to expect
> from the way we use it. I restart FF (and X) every couple weeks or when
> it crashes. I just wait for the reallocation. I think there may still
> be some small memory leaks in FF, not anything like Netscape 10 years ago.

OK, I was wondering if they're unprecedentedly high. I guess not. :-)

-- 
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When we've nuked the world to a cinder, the cockroaches picking
over the remains will be crawling over the remaining artifacts
and wondering what "PC LOAD LETTER" means. -- PC / ASR
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