Comment 31 for bug 229745

On Intrepid on an AMD 64 running firefox 3.0.8 this is a grep of all firefox related processes when I did

pidstat -d 2 at different times:

Linux 2.6.27-14-generic (hostname) 02/04/09 _x86_64_
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09:08:05 PID kB_rd/s kB_wr/s kB_ccwr/s Command
09:08:23 9140 0.00 12.00 4.00 firefox
09:08:25 9140 0.00 22.00 0.00 firefox
09:08:27 9140 108.00 102.00 10.00 firefox
09:08:29 9140 0.00 6.00 4.00 firefox
09:08:31 9140 0.00 3.96 3.96 firefox
09:08:33 9140 0.00 22.22 6.06 firefox
09:08:35 9140 0.00 26.00 18.00 firefox
09:08:37 9140 0.00 44.00 0.00 firefox
09:08:39 9140 0.00 4.00 4.00 firefox
09:08:41 9140 0.00 16.00 14.00 firefox
09:08:43 9140 0.00 14.00 6.00 firefox
09:08:45 9140 0.00 16.00 4.00 firefox
09:08:47 9140 6.00 76.00 4.00 firefox
09:08:49 9140 0.00 4.00 4.00 firefox
09:08:51 9140 0.00 26.00 4.00 firefox
09:08:53 9140 0.00 12.00 10.00 firefox
09:08:55 9140 0.00 8.00 6.00 firefox
09:08:57 9140 2.00 16.00 0.00 firefox
09:09:03 9140 0.00 6.00 0.00 firefox
09:09:05 9140 0.00 18.00 4.00 firefox
09:09:07 9140 4.00 126.00 12.00 firefox
09:09:09 9140 0.00 6.00 4.00 firefox
09:09:11 9140 0.00 8.00 2.00 firefox
09:09:13 9140 0.00 10.00 10.00 firefox
09:09:15 9140 0.00 10.00 6.00 firefox
09:28:18 9140 0.00 345.10 0.00 firefox
09:28:20 9140 0.00 352.00 0.00 firefox
09:28:22 9140 0.00 368.00 0.00 firefox
09:28:24 9140 0.00 384.00 0.00 firefox
09:28:26 9140 0.00 418.00 0.00 firefox
09:28:28 9140 0.00 416.00 0.00 firefox
09:28:30 9140 0.00 432.00 0.00 firefox
09:28:32 9140 0.00 448.00 0.00 firefox
09:28:34 9140 0.00 480.00 0.00 firefox
09:28:36 9140 0.00 464.00 0.00 firefox
09:28:38 9140 0.00 512.00 0.00 firefox
09:28:40 9140 0.00 512.00 0.00 firefox
09:28:42 9140 0.00 528.00 0.00 firefox
09:28:44 9140 0.00 544.00 0.00 firefox
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If this will not be fixed here but only in jaunty, please ensure that this behaviour does not propagate into janunty as well.

Thanks.