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Linux Filesystem, Storage, and Memory Management Summit, Day 2

Linux Filesystem, Storage, and Memory Management Summit, Day 2

Posted May 6, 2011 23:15 UTC (Fri) by zlynx (subscriber, #2285)
In reply to: Linux Filesystem, Storage, and Memory Management Summit, Day 2 by oak
Parent article: Linux Filesystem, Storage, and Memory Management Summit, Day 2

Not sure if it is still true with more recent Firefoxes but I remember that the Firefox web browser around version 2 would easily use over 300 MB of X memory on heavy image sites. On a 512 MB machine this was more than 50%.

I wasn't using control groups back then of course.


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