On 12/07/2021 15:11, Michal Suchánek wrote:
On Tue, Jul 06, 2021 at 12:49:18PM -0700, David Walker wrote:
A while ago, I also was suffering from serious "unresponsiveness" when opening moderately-large Google Spreadsheets. After reading an earlier version of https://doc.opensuse.org/documentation/leap/tuning/html/book-tuning/cha-tuni... https://doc.opensuse.org/documentation/leap/tuning/html/book-tuning/cha-tuni..., I found that setting:
sysctl vm/watermark_scale_factor=1000
Thanks for the tip.
Might be worth looking into.
The other thing is that some web pages may leak memory, and some web pages are just so huge that they cause OOM or stall the system (huge text files displayed in the browser and NASA photos with excessive resolution come to mind).
Michal
Yes, nowadays 8GB sadly doesn't cut any more, I had to shell out and get 16GB for this old intel i5 4-core machine (DDR3); made a huge difference, since e.g. more ram can be used for disk cache (think grep/rg'ing through huge dirs of text files). Recently I started looking into ways of manually "un-loading" firefox tabs, there are various extensions (I tried "Auto Tab Discard", seems to work), I set to un-load tabs every ten minutes, I tend to have many tabs open (less than 50, for some people many means 100+ :)) in multiple windows, closing a tab sometimes means a thread I intend to read will be lost/forgotten (bookmarking doesn't work that well in such cases), so un-loading the tab seems like a good workaround. I hope that helps. [...] -- Ahmad Samir