On 10/21/05, Chris Mauritz <chrism at imntv.com> wrote: > Steve Bergman wrote: > > > Also, current kernels are aggressive at freeing up application memory > > that is rarely used by swapping it out to make more room for caching > > disk data. IMO, it's a win. > > > Yep, this is a great "feature," especially on something like a busy web > server that's serving up lots of static content. > Ahh ya, that seems to be the culprit. I've been on a lot of graphic intensive sites, so Firefox has been flushing out the cache by using a few hundred megs of ram. Thanks for the info, I should stop going on dating sites to keep up with the latest changes haha