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Lie Ryan wrote: |
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> On 09/19/10 19:04, Dale wrote: |
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>> Yep. I use Seamonkey which is browser and email all in one. It doesn't |
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>> use much when I first start it up. The amount it accumulates as time |
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>> goes on depends on the websites I go to. If I go to sites that have a |
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>> lot of flash, pictures and gifs, then it starts to using a lot more |
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>> memory. If I go to say the gentoo forums which is mostly text, it |
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>> doesn't change much. |
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> When I'm doing emerge or other things, I usually switches to Epiphany, |
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> dillo, or links; depending on how unbearable things becomes. |
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If you set the "nice" value in make.conf then it shouldn't affect |
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anything else you are doing. I set mine to this: |
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PORTAGE_NICENESS=5 |
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PORTAGE_IONICE_COMMAND="ionice -c 3 -p \${PID}" |
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That works very well. Note, I think you have to have something compiled |
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in the kernel for the IONICE part to work. |
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>> Just like the example Alan gave, it's not the program itself that is |
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>> using the memory, it's what you are doing with it that uses memory. I |
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>> have found that the weather radar site and youtube are the biggest |
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>> memory hogs. |
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> I'm opening mostly standard HTML pages (gmail, static pages, etc) and |
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> the memory usage is still quite bad. |
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Do they have ads? Those ads can be any number of things. Even if they |
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are just gifs, they still add up. Keep in mind, most browsers cache |
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things until they are closed. If you close your program and the memory |
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returns to normal when open it again, then that could be the reason. |
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Also, Linux doesn't manage memory the same way windoze does. The OS |
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itself caches as much as it can. |
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>> This is my Seamonkey with email also open and I have only visited a |
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>> couple forums sites: |
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>> 7493 dale 20 0 253m 133m 28m S 0.7 6.6 1:59.65 seamonkey-bin |
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> Incidentally, I've found that browsing using Thunderbrowse extension in |
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> Thunderbird is much more memory friendly than using Firefox itself |
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> (Thunderbird still uses around 15-20% memory, compared to 20-30% that |
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> Firefox uses). If only Thunderbrowse's interface is not so buggy... |
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I use Seamonkey for my email so I don't even have Thunderbird installed |
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here. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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