Memory

[Richard]

Thanks Alan,
did google, for the memory leak, and found the page,
however, they said, at the end, the memory leak is still there,

According to the system monitor,
at the time, it said Firefox was using about 107 Meg under the virtual
column.

But Evolution, uses allot more... gee whiz,

Thinks, I needs to look around for a better email program,
and web browser...

Rich
 

On Thu, 2006-05-04 at 22:27 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> 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
> 
> -- 
> If only you and dead people understand hex, 
> how many people understand hex?
> 
> Alan McKinnon
> alan at linuxholdings dot co dot za
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