[geeks] I love it when software gets more efficient

[Phil Brutsche]

Charles Shannon Hendrix <shannon at widomaker.com> wrote:

> Today I checked Firefox and Thunderbird after they'd been running about
> 10 hours.
>
> Firefox was using 220MB, and Thunderbird was using 280MB.

Sometime I'm lucky if it's that small after even 6 hours...

At times I have a 700MB Thundirbird process, and about 200MB for Firefox.

BTW, they *have* gotten better - 1.5 uses less memory than 1.0.  With  
Thunderbird 1.0 I would see it taking up 900MB(!), and with Firefox  
1.0 I could get it up to 500MB.  With buggy JavaScript I've seen it up  
to 1.5GB... real fun when the machine "only" has 1GB RAM.

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Phil Brutsche
phil at tux.obix.com