-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday, 2020-01-01 at 14:18 +0100, Wolfgang Rosenauer wrote:
Am 01.01.20 um 14:09 schrieb Carlos E. R.:
On Wednesday, 2020-01-01 at 10:12 +0100, Wolfgang Rosenauer wrote:
Am 01.01.20 um 00:08 schrieb Carlos E. R.:
On 31/12/2019 23.03, jdd@dodin.org wrote:
Le 31/12/2019 à 21:25, Carlos E. R. a écrit :
No? Two gigabytes is not "too much" for you? :-D
why not use free ram?
Sorry, I don't understand. FF uses so much RAM that there is not enough RAM and the machine swaps.
how many content processes do you have configured? (Probably that was written somewhere in the thread before it changed subject and so I deleted it already)
I have not configured such a thing. Didn't know it was configurable.
I guess you know that Mozilla's RAM consumption heavily depends on the number of processes running.
No, I don't. :-o
Good, that we talked about it then ;-)
I knew that it depended on the number of processes, but not "heavily". And that tidbit was useless without knowing that I can adjust the number of them. If you have said it before, I missed it, so thanks for repeating it :-)
Many people nowadays have a lot of memory and the web browser is extremely essential for them. So for many it makes a lot of sense to run many processes. E.g. Chrome used to (likely still does) run one process per tab and is using typically much more memory when many tabs are open. Firefox behaves differently and distributes tabs onto a fixed max number of content processes.
I'm running 8 content processes and my RSS value adds up to roughly 6.5G but I don't care since my browser is essential to me and stability and performance as well and I have typically enough RAM.
I have 8 GiB of ram. How many processes do you reccomend, and where do I set it up? I think it is using 8, by looking at "top" output.
8 seems to be default, yes. It might be dynamic to size of installed RAM but not sure.
I see in settings a new "use recommended performance settings" entry. If I untick it, I see "use hardware accel when possible", and that the number of processes limit is set to 8. I'll change to four, as I have 4 cores.
Makes sense. Please observe how it behaves now memory-wise. You probably need to play a bit to find the sweet spot for your usage and system.
That is not that easy... it would need careful testing opening the same tabs several times under different conditions. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. (from openSUSE 15.1 x86_64 at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iHoEARECADoWIQQZEb51mJKK1KpcU/W1MxgcbY1H1QUCXgyerxwccm9iaW4ubGlz dGFzQHRlbGVmb25pY2EubmV0AAoJELUzGBxtjUfVRgsAn3IOrhTTt53Rt43TFhtA kayo8ZT0AKCM1gSBuhRPAPoXInceS8ZEJgWang== =owzZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----