Memory Usage

[geekerati]

I'm curious as to how much memory your browser uses. A friend of mine ask me this earlier today, so I'm curious. I guess he read this same article.

Firefox--68,600 k after running it hard for several hours, but usually runs around 40,000-50,000 K.

Internet Explorer-- initial launch was 11,000k and peaked at around 45,000 K

Firefox 1.5: Not Ready For Prime Time?

Information Week's Scot Finnie has a few bones to pick with Mozilla's new Firefox 1.5 browser. One of his main beefs is the fact that Firefox is still a memory hog. I can attest to this fact personally as I have had problems with memory usage in all releases of Firefox:

Matt McKenzie, Editor of the Linux Pipeline, recently sent me a screenshot that showed Firefox 1.5's main process (firefox.exe) using 398,108K physical memory and 405,540K virtual memory - way more than is comfortable or necessary. And the number, he said, was rising while he was sitting there. On the other hand, on my system, a quick check showed Firefox 1.5 using about 27,000K on first launch, and between 50,000K and 60,000K after a couple of hours of hard use. That level of memory use is within bounds. (By comparison, IE6 used only 13,000K after initial launch on the same machine in the same session.)

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[kcmandava]

I have had IE use about 65000 on my machine after a couple of hours even when the windows were inactive for quite sometime.

[zima]

Basically Opera wins in this regard, though I won't give you exact numbers (on my main machine I don't have Interent acces, and here in cafe it's win98...)

[Vimialp]

I have so much ram and virtual memory that i can run battlefield2 and windows media player at the same time with out either geting distoreted

[andrew247]

Originally Posted by Vimialp

I have so much ram and virtual memory that i can run battlefield2 and windows media player at the same time with out either geting distoreted

Lucky you...I can't even play games on miniclip without them jumping (I think my rubbish graphics card also contributes to this)

[andrew247]

How do I check how much memory is being used by a program?

[Vimialp]

if your on xp, ctrl-alt-del and click on the processes tab and performance tab for the totals.

I still havn't overclocked my gpu, but i'm thinkin of setting up the sli just for kicks.

[andrew247]

Thanks vimialp
Here are my stats (just after launching):
IE - 21368 K
Firefox - 16908 K

[Vimialp]

firefox - 31,480k after several hours
IE - 20,000k after startup

289048k used
1280480420K left
468476k peak

[Lupine1647]

You may want to include all of those extensions you installed in Firefox aswell. I've had my Firefox running for 3 days and it's using 455,756 K.