[wplug] firefox and resources

[Ben Beige]

Firefox, on any platform, dose not have a light memory footprint,
Opera may be better with that little ram.


On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 6:45 PM, Zach <netrek at gmail.com> wrote:
> Starting firefox and opening gmail (no other tabs open) is eating up
>  27.7% of 256MB physical memory
>  and the VSZ is 189796 - does that represent bits? It is Firefox 1.5.0.3
>  Does this look normal? I also noticed Firefox will often spike to 90%
>  or even 99% CPU consumption! Is this also normal? If so it seems bad
>  design in the OS or application. Is there a reliable way I can limit
>  the CPU without hurting application peformance too much?
>
>  USER       PID     %CPU    %MEM    VSZ         RSS     TTY      STAT
>  START   TIME COMMAND
>  ubuntu    5650   23.2       27.7       189796    71000  pts/4   Sl
>   17:17    1:37 /usr/lib/firefox/firefox-bin -a firefox
>
>  Zach
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Ben Beige
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