Re: Firefox alternatives?
On Wed, 2024-12-11 at 21:37 +0000, Andy Smith wrote:
Is this system at its max of memory? If not, then maxing it out will be
a very cheap upgrade that will be absolutely worth it. If you don't know
if it's maxed, tell us the motherboard, show us the output of "sudo
lshw" or something.
RAM already at max. More RAM would require new MB.
If it's not running off of flash storage already then doing that will
also be well worth it, but I wouldn't bother unless the memory can be
increased first.
Highest priority swap partitions are on flash drives/
If you're not going to be able to increase the memory then I would
either turn off swap (or dramatically reduce its amount *and* adjust
swappiness down) or I would launch firefox by a script that caps its
total virtual memory at 3G or something. It means firefox will crash
before it makes the computer unusable.
KDE "System Activity" launched using Ctrl-ESC shows firefox using 150-200 MB + about 100 MB shared. Does this include cache buffers given over to supporting it "under the covers?"
But "top -o %MEM shows firefox at the top with 12.4 GB VIRT, 377 MB res, 90 MB shr.
Who is right?
How do I limit how much RAM (virtual or resident) firefox gets?
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