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Firefox 2.0's memory usage seems much better, from a short study of the numbers of mem usage and VM size today. It'll take more experimenting and watching, but it seems to be hovering around 70mb with three tabs after several hours.
as someone that's been plagued with this problem for a while, this is a welcome development.
Sounds about right. How much memory are you swapping?
I'd have to know what that meant to be able to tell you!
How much is your pagefile usage? How much RAM do you have?
512 mb ram, I'm not sure how big my page file will stretch, but it's at about 420mb right now.
Firefox used to get over 100mb of vm size much quicker than this though xD
That's a big pagefile. It's best to set a static pagefile, though. You don't want Windows defining how much it needs. 1.5x the size of your total system RAM seems to be the consensus.
well, that would be like 750mb anyways, wouldn't it, yams xD
No, that's how much space you set aside. You won't be swapping the total amount. Letting Windows decide how big to make the pagefile will only increase the amount of times needed to access the hard disk.
For example. I have around 1500MB reserved for a pagefile on two seperate partitions on my second HDD. One for my Linux install and one for my Windows install. The size never changes, however, I never swap the full ammount. The highest I get is probably close to 1GB when playing games.
IE has always been lame to me...i dunno why, it does the job and is widely supported...i just love the foxyfire
1500MB swap partition? Or two 750MB, one for Linux and one for Windows? A 1500MB swap partition would be enormous. I thought the 1.5 x RAM size idea sort of stops being applicable once you get around 512MB of RAM. I have 2GB of RAM and I have a 512MB swap partition which I very rarely even touch. Granted I don't play games. But I very rarely even go anywhere near 1GB memory usage, and I really abuse my machine. I know of people who don't have a swap partition at all who have less RAM than I do. http://gentoo-wiki.com/FAQ_Linux_Memory_Management is a good writeup on how the Linux kernel manages RAM.
Granted I don't use Windows. But multitasking in Windows is already so bad I don't really know if the size of your pagefile really matters.
Two 1.5GB partitions. I don't really need it under Linux, but Windows likes to scratch the disk. In fact, while I get initial pagefile usage of about 80MB at boot in Windows, all my boot stuff under Linux is run off the RAM. Windows is terrible at memory management.
I use IE anyway. So yeah Ill be downloading.