Re: High memory usage with www/firefox and www/seamonkey on amd64

["Julian H. Stacey" <jhs%berklix.com@localhost>]

Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 01:39:11AM +0100, Jose Luis Rodriguez Garcia wrote:
> > >>
> > >> ¿Is this the usual behavior? A friend of mine with Linux/amd64 says it
> > >> takes to him 300-500 Mbytes of memory.
> > >
> > >displaying the same tabs ?
> > 
> > Diferent tabs. If I remember well it was about 70 tabs.
> 
> It could be the content of the tab that makes a difference then.
> 
> > 
> > >
> > >In fact I suspect firefox may have a memory leak somewhere ...
> > >Either that, or it's using memory for cache, and does a bad job
> > >at scaling i
> > 
> > Do you speak about specific leak of firefox on NetBSD or a leak on all
> > platforms?
> 
> I don't use linux myself; but I've seen firefox on linux suck lots
> of RAM as well (users complaining that their machine was slow)

Firefox is also a greedy monster on FreeBSD, both in memory & ~/.mozilla 

Cheers,
Julian
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Julian Stacey, BSD Unix Linux C Sys Eng Consultant, Munich http://berklix.com
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