[geeks] WTF - Linux on a laptop...

[Kevin]

How many tabs do you have open and what version of Mozilla are
you running?  On my system, each tab Mozilla (v1.6) opens takes
up 16.5% of memory as registered by top (my machine is running on
256 as well.)

/KRM

On Thu, 26 Feb 2004 23:18:02 -0500
Lionel Peterson <lionel4287 at verizon.net> wrote:

> Hello all,
> 
> I'm running RH Linux 8 on a PII laptop, and with *only* 256 Meg
> of RAM, the Mozilla browser seems to use about 110% of
> available RAM... WTF is this thing doing with all that RAM?
> 
> Any pointers to a more parsimonious browser for x86 linux? I
> can't add more RAM, though I'd like to (this tecra 8000 only
> supports 256 Meg total - it's a four year old laptop)...