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[Evens Garde <evans.garde@xxxxxxxxx>]

Carlos E. R. wrote:
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> The Sunday 2008-06-01 at 16:28 +0200, Carlos E. R. wrote:
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> > top extract:
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> > Mem:   1036364k total,  1020736k used,    15628k free,    26500k buffers
> > Swap: 12594880k total,  1186492k used, 11408388k free,   367220k cached
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> >  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
> > 10513 cer       15   0  667m 118m  17m S  1.0 11.7 190:50.12 firefox-bin
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> > ·······················^^^^
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> > Most of it swapped out, fortunately. Probably holes.
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> I have been several days opening and closing windows in Firefox. A 
> moment ago, I opened a new one (http://localhost/server-info), and 
> closed the rest. And:
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>   PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
> 10513 cer       15   0  643m 111m  16m R  0.7 11.0 248:42.04 firefox-bin
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> It is still using more than half a gigabyte? Why doesn't mozilla return 
> all that unused memory? Is that /good/ memory management?

Memory caching of previously fetched pages.

Yes both seamonkey and firefox are memory hogs.

> Oh my! :-/
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