The PS3 uses one cell processor, which has 8 SPEs, one of which has been dctivated so it only uses 7.

atuc210 edamore 75> ./ucb/ps auxw | grep firefox edamore 5245 0.7 10.9232272217400 pts/9 S Oct 02 171:14 /home/edamore/tools/firefox/firefox-bin It runs for large number if days for me, but it does exit for unknown reasons out of the blue randomly.