[rescue] Ultra 60 memory

Joshua Boyd jdboyd at jdboyd.net
Sun Mar 9 07:13:32 CDT 2008


On Mar 9, 2008, at 7:53 AM, Steve Sandau wrote:

>
> Firefox acceptable for me, but not great. Part of that problem is  
> missing or misconfigured plugins for certain things. CPU-intensive  
> pages will bog it down, but I am not in the habit of visiting to  
> Myspace and the like. It does have some type of memory leak and  
> needs to be restarted once in a while. Every few months I need to  
> restart X to reclaim memory, too.

Firefox tends to require fairly regular restarting for me because of  
memory leaks.

> Interesting that the biggest memory problem I have is with Acrobat.  
> That is the one program that will almost always cause swapping if I  
> have Firefox, Thunderbird and some terminal sessions running.

I try hard to always use something like xpdf or evince instead of  
acrobat.



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