Using mdadm and linux you can grow a RAID 5 if you replaced all the disks one by one, this has been possible for a while. Recent kernels have made it possible to expand the RAID 5 sets by adding more drives. So you can basically grow as you need. Some guys have even migrated from a JBOD to RAID 5 using just one extra disk by creating an array from two drives but marking one as missing, I'm not recommending this unless you have backups:) (and since you have your backups it will be quicker to just create the whole thing right away than to go through reshaping for each disk).
I'm probably hitting this flash memory leak bug someone else made a note of here. I'm taking a look at now.
This is my browser at work and I usually have so many tabs that I get that marvelous clipping effect at the right side of the tab bar. And after a week or so I'm usually up to 750mb.
It doesn't really affect me as I have 2Gb of RAM in my workstation, I usually restart Firefox after some crappy flash ad locks up the browser.
That would be great, or at least give us a hint how to use it so it will free up some of it's memory (other than restarting), or to point out features we're using that do use this much memory.
I'm usually around 750,000k but have seen it go over 1 Gb.
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Using mdadm and linux you can grow a RAID 5 if you replaced all the disks one by one, this has been possible for a while. Recent kernels have made it possible to expand the RAID 5 sets by adding more drives. So you can basically grow as you need. Some guys have even migrated from a JBOD to RAID 5 using just one extra disk by creating an array from two drives but marking one as missing, I'm not recommending this unless you have backups :) (and since you have your backups it will be quicker to just create the whole thing right away than to go through reshaping for each disk).
Is this a single isolated incident or simply the first one of more coming from the company that does no evil?
I'm probably hitting this flash memory leak bug someone else made a note of here. I'm taking a look at now.
This is my browser at work and I usually have so many tabs that I get that marvelous clipping effect at the right side of the tab bar. And after a week or so I'm usually up to 750mb.
It doesn't really affect me as I have 2Gb of RAM in my workstation, I usually restart Firefox after some crappy flash ad locks up the browser.
That would be great, or at least give us a hint how to use it so it will free up some of it's memory (other than restarting), or to point out features we're using that do use this much memory.
I'm usually around 750,000k but have seen it go over 1 Gb.