Memory Usage of Chrome, Firefox 3.5, et al. 505
An anonymous reader writes "This experiment graphs the memory usage of Chrome and Firefox 3.5 (along with Safari and Opera) over a series of 150 Web page loads using an automated script. Firefox 3.5 shows the lowest memory usage in all categories, including average memory usage, maximum memory usage, and final memory usage. Chrome uses over 1 GB of memory due to its process architecture. Safari 4 and Opera show memory usage degradation over time, while Chrome and Firefox 3.5 are more reliable in freeing memory to the OS." IE 8 was not included "because the author could not find a way to prevent it from opening a new window on each invocation of the command."
IE8, huh? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Finally... (Score:3, Funny)
Well, and here's mine, after half a day of heavy usage:
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
8745 root 20 0 267m 106m 22m S 9.3 10.6 2:38.87 firefox-bin
5242 root 19 -1 334m 24m 8540 S 1.3 2.4 0:36.26 X
5405 root 20 0 37520 11m 8408 S 0.0 1.1 0:01.16 xfdesktop
5400 root 20 0 19468 10m 6964 S 0.0 1.0 0:02.72 xfce4-panel
5398 root 20 0 18600 9272 6696 S 0.0 0.9 0:00.80 xfwm4
Re:Finally... (Score:5, Funny)
Firefox...as root...REALLY?!
You should be ashamed.
Re:how is his memory usage that low? (Score:3, Funny)
When using more than 10 tabs or so, my memory usage is...
Yes, I notice when I have a huge number of tabs open with a mixture of Flash and other multi-media running, my browser slows down too. Wonder why that is...
Re:Pfft. (Score:3, Funny)
Well of course, he needs to add some lens flare to the porn. Not everyone has simple fetishes, some people really have to work for it.
Re:should have tweaked chrome (Score:2, Funny)
Re:It doesn't matter (Score:2, Funny)
I'm not a Firefox user... does it really show ass icons?
Re:Finally... (Score:2, Funny)
Finally the Windows users are using Linux?
Re:Moving targets (Score:5, Funny)
FF3 is plenty good enough for me to thoroughly enjoy an episode of 'Burn Notice' on Hulu just now on that very computer.
Wow! FF3 must be a fantastic piece of software if it can make Burn Notice watchable.
Re:Finally... (Score:4, Funny)
Firefox mem usage is 271,480 MB
Wait, why are you running firefox on a supercomputer?
Re:Finally... (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Moving targets (Score:5, Funny)
Baiting Slashdotters is much like shooting fish in a barrel, the trick is to find the right ammunition, from then on it's childs play.
Re:Tabs hell (Score:2, Funny)
You should just declare bankruptcy and start over. Especially if the number is still growing, rather than shrinking some of the time.
Re:Finally... (Score:4, Funny)