Re: Memory fragmentation?

[email protected] wrote:
> On Oct 19, 1:17 pm, Boris Zbarsky <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Well.  In that bug the "problem" is "top reports high memory usage".
> 
> Which is typically what people complain about, too. "I closed all my
> pages and tabs and Firefox is still using 10GB of memory!" We may have
> free()ed almost all of it, but the library won't give it back to the
> OS.
> 

yep - really big perceptual problem.  Just hitting spacbar in google 
reader can start to chew through ram...  Closing all tabs and having a 
very different memory number than when you first start is very hard to 
explain.  As I asked on another reply is there an easy way to get modern 
numbers on windows for this?

Cheers,

Schrep