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2006-05-04, 10:32 AM
Just because you and I are probably in our 60's doesn't mean we don't need help sometimes ;) (and I am old enough to have seen disk drums connected to PDP-8).
however, pulling the plug is a sure way to end up with a corrupt filesystem.
I spent the am and watched memory. 200MB while surfing through hundreds of photos (most small, none were huge) but as soon as I opened some tabs, probably 60 from one bookmark folder, memory started climbing quite a bit so sure seems like tabs are spawning their own memory cache.
Even a well behaved server can ultimately need to have a reboot to reclaim memory. Even a B2.
However, 5.1.3 is not very good at threading or opening those same 60 tabs and many would time out or fail and OW had begun to feel sluggish and slow compared to the latest Firefox 1.5.x.
A lot of small problems can be helped (and cured) with fsck and Applejack. I hope you use both after pulling the plug. Something I've never needed or had to do.