Memory

[Alan McKinnon]

On Thursday 04 May 2006 21:03, Vincent Trouilliez wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-05-04 at 14:46 -0400, Richard wrote:
> > Got Ubuntu running on my Mac G4 with 512MB 40GB HD,
> > notice, that its eating up over 360 megs of Ram,
> > with nothing running on the desktop? (memory leak)?
> >
> > Downloaded, all the new updates today:
> > running 2.6.12.10 kernel I think? plus the other 40+ updates.
>
> Hmmm, when I used to use Breezy (switched to Dapper permanently a
> month ago), it would use only 85MB of RAM once Gnome had finished
> loading. 360MB is definitely not normal, better file a bug report
> about it...

Before you do that you might want to try disable the Firefox "feature" 
that consumes massive amounts of memory. I don't use ff myself, so 
this is all from memory - google "Firefox memory leak" to make sure.

The upshot is that recent ff pre-fetches massive amounts of stuff 
hoping that maybe perhaps you might want to view all links on that 
page. Neat, but it consumes memoryand bandwidth. It's not as bad as 
it looks, ff will release that memory if the kernel insists it needs 
it instead.

Go to about:config and set network.prefetch-next to false, then see if 
your problem goes away

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Alan McKinnon
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