Re: [PLUG] OT: Mac OS X question

[JP Vossen <jp@jpsdomain.org>]

> Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2007 08:08:01 -0400 (EDT)
> From: James Fiore <jfiore@absurgery.org>
> Subject: Re: [PLUG] OT: Mac OS X question
>
> On Wed, 10 Oct 2007, zuzu wrote:
> > ...try Firefox -- especially Firefox rather than Camino -- with 200+
> > tabs...
<snip>
> 200+ tabs in Firefox is "nothing out of the ordinary"?  No wonder you need
> 4GB of RAM.  I'm not trying to be belligerent.  I'm just genuinely curious how
> you work with that many tabs open and why?  Are these news articles? --
> the way you do research?  What do you do with that many tabs?  Does
> anyone else work with anywhere near that many tabs?

I don't know about 200, but I currently have 111 tabs in 7 FF windows 
using 227,000K according to Task Mangler as follows:
	1) 8 tabs, just "stuff" (/., Dilbert, Google Cal, weather, etc.)
	2) 7 tabs, work portal, CVS stuff (I often have 10-15 tabs here)
	3) 9 tabs, bash Cookbook stuff
	4) 17 tabs, personal project
	5) 51 tabs, MythTV, Mythbuntu, various
	6) 10 tabs, t-shooting a work tar issue
	7) 9 tabs, t-shooting my Optiplex X video issue

Yes, that's right, I said Task Mangler.  This is on my work Viao laptop, 
running XP2, with 1G.  Including the FF windows, I have 32 app buttons 
in the task bar, including Outlook, Word and Excel, all of which are 
pigs.  I have Notepad++ with 10 open files, and most of the others, 
(except Thunderbird, Toad and Remedy) are light-weight things like 
Notepad.  I also have 11 items in the tool tray, including the VPN, A/V, 
GDS, Pidgin, PGP, and Pagent.

I get uptime in the 40-50 day range, though *stable* uptime is usually 
under 30 days.  As you might imagine, after rebooting it's a time 
consuming affair to get back to where I left off.  (Mark me down as a 
heavy duty "intertwingler". :)  FF and TB are *by far* the biggest 
memory pigs, though I'm sure M$ Office apps cheat by not counting shared 
libs in the task mangler listings.

Wow, interesting.  I kind of hate to admit all that, but there it is...

Surely OS/X or Ubuntu can beat that?

<ducking>
JP
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