Friday, June 11, 2010

On leaking memory like a sieve


I tend to leave browser tabs open for weeks on end, and if it's not entirely clear from the gratuitous screen-grab above, those 19 Google Chrome processes each consume anywhere from 16 to 108M of memory, for a grand total of 577M.

And here I thought Firefox was bad about memory management.

Tuesday, June 1, 2010

Faster than a speeding mushroom


This growth occurred over the course of two days. Moving clockwise from the top left, pictures were taken at: 7pm on Wednesday, 8 am Thursday morning, 11pm Thursday night, and finally 7pm Friday night.