On Mon, 2007-01-08 at 22:07 -0800, Richard England wrote: > Tim wrote: > > On Mon, 2007-01-08 at 21:27 -0800, Richard England wrote: > > > >> If I start firefox and use or let it sit idle, eventually the system > >> will lock up. > >> > > > > I haven't seen that, but I have seen my system get incredibly sluggish > > if Firefox has been running for quite some time (whether or not its > > idle). > > > > > This can be anywhere from an hour or two to overnight. Your symptom and > mine start to sound like a memory leak, to me, but when I use top to > watch memory utilization, it is high but not growing over time.... > > Mysteries, mysteries.... > > ~~R > I had beagle running in the firefox. If you check the lower right corner, you may see the little beagle icon. If you click it it will turn off. It is a real hog from what I could tell, but I haven't explored its consequences yet. I just turned it off and got on with life. Regards, Les H
