Re: Memory Issues

[Oleg <oleg benya com>]

I've found that Mozilla is a massive memory hog. I'm seeing the same
problems you are and I have 256 MB RAM.
On Wed, 20 Dec 2000, Poletti, Don wrote:

> I'm having performance problems on my machine and I'm 99%
> sure its due to memory issues. I have 64Megs of Ram. But when
> I run Galeon or Mozilla My machine starts swapping like mad 
> and changing windows talks 5 seconds or more. Using Gtop
> I found that Galeon uses 80megs and Mozilla 0.6 was using
> 130Megs! In both cases that was just to launch and display 
> Google's home page. No wonder my machine was crawling.
> 
> What are my alternatives. I find this very annoying since
> IE does need nearly so much ram so this makes Linux/Gnome
> crawl compared with windows running on the same hardware doing
> similar tasks.
> 
> While I'm on a rant it look likes XMMS takes like 10-15 megs
> Is it just me or does this seem way excessive.
> 
> This will effectively keep me from using Linux/Gnome since
> it less than half the speed of windows on my machine.
> 
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