[PLUG] New Computer

Rich Shepard rshepard at appl-ecosys.com
Wed Feb 24 17:25:45 UTC 2010


On Wed, 24 Feb 2010, Aaron Burt wrote:

> I hate to disagree, but I did some experiments a couple years ago, and
> found that Firefox dominated RAM usage, no matter the desktop environment,
> WM, tuning or other things.  Everything else was not that significant.

   Interesting, Aaron. I've been running some resource-intensive spatial
models recently and while watching 'top' see that firefox-bin usually wants
less than 5% of the available (2G) RAM. It's about the same now without
these number crunching processes running.

Rich



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