firefox grows, taking over all resources

[ted leslie]

never know about shift-esc, but tried it and didn't work,
but i see it as a menu option in pull down.

what is "goats teleported"  when right click and add column? 
my number of goats teleported varies drastically from second to second,
and I am starting to get very concerned!

tl

On Thu, 30 Sep 2010 11:47:34 -0400
Mike <el.fontanero-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 11:34 AM, Christopher Browne <cbbrowne-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> > On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 11:09 AM, Lennart Sorensen
> > <lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> >> Well I have started using the firefox 4 beta version.  So far I am
> >> actually impressed.  It is much faster and much less resource hungry
> >> than firefox 3.x has been.  Might be worth a try.
> >
> > Sounds like a step ahead.  Web browsers seem to be the worst offenders
> > these days in the battle to chew up all my swap space.
> >
> > Chrome has the small merit that, as each window is managed by a
> > separate process, there's *some* hope of tracking offensively bloated
> > processes and expunging them without necessarily needing to kill off
> > the whole browser.  Unfortunately, it's only worth searching for the
> > *worst* bloat, and that only when things start swapping to a
> > troublesome degree.
> > --
> 
> Chrome's <Shift>-<Esc> status interface allows you to clearly identify
> hoggish pages or even plugins, terminate them, and reload them.
> Untended, however, the browser seems to still be able to grow without
> reasonable bounds...
> 
> I've tried setting limits via "ulimit" (actually Lennart's
> suggestion), but chrome / firefox / opera all seem to happily
> circumvent such limits :-(
> 
> It seems absurd that the only way to put any of these browsers on a
> diet is to limit the size of the room (VM).
> 
> Cheers,
> Mike
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