RE: Memory Issues

["Poletti, Don" <don poletti comverse-in com>]

I'm a little confused by this here is a ps -aux snippet
thanks to oleg. There are 4 process ids. Threads do not
get a process id, or am I missing something.

oleg      1994  0.0  0.4 32676  272 tty2     S    Dec18   0:26 [mozilla-bin]
oleg      1996  0.0  0.4 32676  272 tty2     S    Dec18   0:00 [mozilla-bin]
oleg      1997  0.0  0.4 32676  272 tty2     S    Dec18   0:02 [mozilla-bin]
oleg      1998  0.0  0.4 32676  272 tty2     S    Dec18   0:00 [mozilla-bin]
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> 
> On Wed, 20 Dec 2000 10:17:51 -0500, Poletti, Don said:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> Errm.. Mozilla or Galeon or any threaded application is not 
> using ALL the
> memory that gtop will report, those are threads.. so if you 
> say Galeon is using
> 80 megabytes, you are adding up all the threads... Count one 
> thread memory
> usage only, probably around 20 megabytes. Same goes for 
> Mozilla, same goes for
> Xmms, same goes for Skipstone.. FYI ;-)
> 
> Maher
> 
> >  
> >  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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