Jeff D wrote:
> While not having used asterisk myself, I would suggest not running firefox
> on a machine that is some what critical of uptime. Firefox itself will
> eat up huge amounts of memory. I would also suggest not running X on it
> at all if at all possible. Trimming out just X will cut all of that and
> should leave you with a server that will stay up for a good long while.

Don't run X if you don't need to. Or only run X when necessary, and
exit when you are done. (Don't start it automatically with .bashrc or
an init script.)

The new Firefox 3 beta 5 really plays nice with memory. If you can't
use lynx, and/or need a GUI, Firefox 3 is far superior to Firefox 2.

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On Sat, 05 Apr 2008 15:18:50 -0500
Mark Allums <mark@allums.com> wrote:

> Jeff D wrote:
> > While not having used asterisk myself, I would suggest not running firefox
> > on a machine that is some what critical of uptime. Firefox itself will
> > eat up huge amounts of memory. I would also suggest not running X on it
> > at all if at all possible. Trimming out just X will cut all of that and
> > should leave you with a server that will stay up for a good long while.
>
> Don't run X if you don't need to. Or only run X when necessary, and
> exit when you are done. (Don't start it automatically with .bashrc or
> an init script.)
>
> The new Firefox 3 beta 5 really plays nice with memory. If you can't
> use lynx, and/or need a GUI, Firefox 3 is far superior to Firefox 2.
>

If I'm not mistaken Firefox 3 requires at least GTK 2.10. Thus, if the OP was/is using debian etch then he would have to compile the newer GTK libraries from source if he wants to use Firefox 3.

Amit


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