I have Intel with 2 GB memory, but when I start my Ubuntu 10.04, which I just installed, without running any process, I already have 1.5 GB used. When I start Firefox, it rises to 1.9 GB:

Code:
erelsgl@ubuntu:~$ top

top - 11:44:25 up 28 min,  2 users,  load average: 0.29, 0.43, 0.39
Tasks: 162 total,   1 running, 161 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
Cpu(s):  0.5%us,  0.3%sy,  0.0%ni, 99.2%id,  0.0%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.0%si,  0.0%st
Mem:   2048288k total,  1957740k used,    90548k free,   705732k buffers
Swap:   261112k total,        0k used,   261112k free,   776832k cached

  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND            
  966 root      20   0  115m  18m 8268 S    2  0.9   1:32.73 Xorg               
 1509 erelsgl   20   0  216m  18m  11m S    1  0.9   0:02.73 gnome-terminal     
 1568 erelsgl   20   0  686m 138m  31m S    1  6.9   2:52.69 firefox-bin        
   45 root      20   0     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.69 scsi_eh_0          
    1 root      20   0 23792 1956 1256 S    0  0.1   0:00.64 init               
    2 root      20   0     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.01 kthreadd           
    3 root      RT   0     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.01 migration/0        
    4 root      20   0     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.04 ksoftirqd/0        
    5 root      RT   0     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 watchdog/0         
    6 root      RT   0     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.01 migration/1        
    7 root      20   0     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.04 ksoftirqd/1        
    8 root      RT   0     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 watchdog/1         
    9 root      20   0     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.03 events/0           
   10 root      20   0     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.07 events/1           
   11 root      20   0     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 cpuset             
   12 root      20   0     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 khelper            
   13 root      20   0     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 netns
How can I debug this problem?

Thank you