On 2017-09-20 12:30, Dave Howorth wrote:
On Wed, 20 Sep 2017 03:53:01 +0200 "Carlos E. R." <> wrote:
Firefox is huge.
< 500 MB on my machine
1,601g in mine (RES on "top"). And I see it growing while I do this, and do nothing in FF. 1,685g now.
I don't know what you've got open but I'd guess you have javascript enabled, and perhaps no ad-blocker.
javascript is of course enabled and I use AddBlock Plus (Easy List, adblock removal list, malware domains, fanboy's social block list, + Allow some non-intrusive advertising). I was looking at some amazon pages, and some of my local computer shop. Very commercial sites.
194156 in swap. 4388012 virt.
So is Thunderbird.
Claws is a lot smaller
Maybe, but I'm used to it and its features.
I used to use both Thunderbird and Evolution. Eventually they both annoyed me enough to bin them. Claws is similar enough and does what I want, although I'd be the first to admit that it's a little idiosyncratic.
:-) I also use Alpine. How well does claws handle html? Both reading and writing.
Then I also use LibreOffice, also large.
< 250 MB
239300 RES currently, with only one opened document. If I open my customary calc sheets, it goes to 410176 instantly, before doing anything on them.
So probably similar to mine. I don't find it unexpected that spreadsheets eat memory. Is gnumeric or other any better?
I don't remember, but it is not up to the task. Claws corrupted the format of the "free" output below so that it is unreadable. Claws:
cer@Telcontar:~> free -h --si total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 8,2G 7,7G 458M 185M 287M 3,4G -/+ buffers/cache: 4,0G 4,2G Swap: 43G 1,4G 42G
Reformated by hand:
My system is currently using < 4 GB
More or less like mine, considering that 4 Gigs are in cache and buffers and free.
cer@Telcontar:~> free -h --si total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 8,2G 7,7G 458M 185M 287M 3,4G>> -/+ buffers/cache: 4,0G 4,2G Swap: 43G 1,4G 42G
Thunderbird also broke this paragraph of yours:
# free -h --si total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 8.0G 4.6G 3.4G 84M 287M 3.3G -/+ buffers/cache: 1.0G 6.9G Swap: 29G 1.2M 29G
It should be:
# free -h --si total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 8.0G 4.6G 3.4G 84M 287M 3.3G -/+ buffers/cache: 1.0G 6.9G Swap: 29G 1.2M 29G
According to that, I have half a gig free, and you have 3.4. And I have 1.4 G in swap, and you nothing. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 42.2 x86_64 "Malachite" at Telcontar)