Mine doesn't seem to pound the CPU too badly, it just gobbles RAM... Here is top, sorted for memory:jpeps wrote:Yes, similar to what I posted. Looks like you're using some swap as well. Check out info for the browser though, which includes CPU usage. I think the kernel will take what it needs from the cache anyway, so probably it's unnecessary to clean it ? It certainly doesn't restore resources the way restarting the browser does.
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26730 5756 root S 436m 46% 0 6% firefox
5648 5647 root S < 158m 17% 0 2% X :0 -br -nolisten tcp
28126 26730 root R 85236 9% 0 11% /initrd/pup_ro4/opt/firefox-16.0.2/plugin-container /usr/
5756 1 root S 40380 4% 0 0% /usr/local/apps/ROX-Filer/ROX-Filer -p /root/Choices/ROX-
27396 5756 root S 30648 3% 0 0% geany
10604 5756 root S 29680 3% 0 0% roxterm
6458 1 root S 18352 2% 0 0% fbpanel
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Initial free space
total used free shared buffers
Mem: 969868 757472 212396 0 60548
Swap: 1228964 2780 1226184
Total: 2198832 760252 1438580
clearing cache
Final free space
total used free shared buffers
Mem: 969868 310924 658944 0 576
Swap: 1228964 2780 1226184
Total: 2198832 313704 1885128