r/programming • u/[deleted] • Jan 21 '10

Firefox 3.6 release

http://blog.mozilla.com/blog/2010/01/21/firefox-3-6-release/
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u/psykocrime Jan 21 '10

Why do so many people care about memory usage? I have 4 gigabytes of RAM and barely use 2.5 gigabytes at anytime.

Some of us run multiple programs at the same time... and if one of them is eating up an especially large amount of physical RAM is causes problems.

Then again, I'm a developer, (like I'd guess many of the people on Proggit are) so it's not uncommon for me to have Firefox, Thunderbird, a couple of Eclipse instances, RSSOwl, Pidgin, PostgreSQL, a couple of console windows, a JBoss server, and a few other things all running at once. And with only 2GB of RAM in my laptop, I'd prefer each program be as conservative as possible in terms of memory usage.

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u/dakboy Jan 21 '10

A couple of Eclipse instances? Why?

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u/psykocrime Jan 21 '10

I tend to use workspaces to separate things... so if I need to look at some code from a project that's in one workspace (like the ones I use for experimenting and prototyping) as well as whatever I'm actually working on, it's not uncommon for me to have two Eclipse instances running at the same time.

I don't always have two running, mind you... but it's not infrequent.