Re: Mozilla is so slow! Problem with my upgrade to 2.2r3?
> On Tue, 2 Oct 2001, Peter Christensen wrote:
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> Oh my. You're going to get a lot of responses telling you to
> upgrade; but my guess is that you're problems stems from low RAM. On
> 32 MB of RAM, you're going to start running deep into virtual memory
> because of Mozilla's big footprint. I've heard good things about Galeon,
> but on your computer, you may just want to stick with lynx-ssl.
>
Try running 'vmstat N', where N is a reasonable interval like 5 seconds.
"vmstat reports information about processes, memory, paging, block IO,
traps, and cpu activity." (man vmstat)
If you constantly get lots of SIs and SOs (swap in/out) then your system
is running low on memory.
Here's an example from a system with 64 MB, starting mozilla:
$ vmstat 5
procs memory swap io system
cpu
r b w swpd free buff cache si so bi bo in cs us sy id
0 0 0 332 2388 2564 31256 0 0 3 2 273 277 1 1 98
0 0 0 328 2384 2564 31256 0 0 0 0 505 493 1 3 96
1 0 0 684 1292 2612 30304 0 71 498 33 440 479 22 4 74
1 0 0 684 1216 1428 29692 0 0 340 0 277 283 13 2 85
1 0 0 728 1324 1316 26724 0 9 65 2 246 267 73 3 25
1 0 0 908 1312 1340 24640 32 36 136 9 848 827 34 6 60
0 0 0 908 1752 1376 23672 0 0 28 0 341 338 13 2 85
1 0 0 908 1444 1312 23492 0 0 34 0 688 704 20 3 77
2 0 0 908 1280 1492 23492 0 0 0 16 319 339 2 1 97
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