On 28 Mar 2007 at 15:05, WBR wrote (over on PCBUILD):

> If you do a cntrl-alt-del and bring up task manager you should be able
> to tell which process is using the cpu the most at the time you are
> noticing the activity. 

  There is something on at least one of my machines that periodically takes 
up significant time, but apparently runs at even higher priority than the 
task manager and so is effectively invisible.
  I *suspect* that it is part of the virtual memory mechanism, trying to 
cope with FireFox's "VM Size" growing well beyond the amount of physical RAM 
in the machine, but I haven't found a way to confirm that -- except that it 
will get much better for a couple of days if I kill and re-launch FF....

  This is one of several reasons why I'd really prefer to run each Firefox 
window as a separate process rather than having all of them handled by one 
behemoth.  Anybody know of a way to make it do that?

David Gillett

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