[Gllug] back on the linux front

[- Tethys]

On 4/13/07, Jason Clifford <jason at ukfsn.org> wrote:

> Are you sure you don't have a problem with your RAM or do you have lots of
> extra processes running?
>
> 512M is an enormous amount of RAM.

On my 2GB desktop:

mrburns:~% free
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:       2054608    1992324      62284          0     302356     712116
-/+ buffers/cache:     977852    1076756
Swap:       491512          0     491512
mrburns:~% ps -o user,pid,pmem,vsz,rss,command -p 8569,4956
USER       PID %MEM    VSZ   RSS COMMAND
root      8569  8.8 225972 181908 /usr/bin/Xorg :0 -audit 0 -auth /var/gdm/:0.Xa
tet       4956 23.2 709936 478116 /usr/lib64/firefox-1.5.0.10/firefox-bin

Incidentally, xrestop implies that firefox is using massive amounts of
pixmap memory -- around 435MB on my system. If you know of some
cunning way to reduce that (or firefox's obscene memory requirements
in general), I'm all ears...

Tet
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