Is there a Security Meeting tonight? What is the subject? > On Sep 10, 2017, at 12:00 PM, plug-discuss-request@lists.phxlinux.org wrote: > > Send PLUG-discuss mailing list submissions to > plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > plug-discuss-request@lists.phxlinux.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > plug-discuss-owner@lists.phxlinux.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of PLUG-discuss digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: what sort of use cases/memory_needs/etc (was RE: > Warranty!!?!?!?!?!) (Michael Butash) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Sat, 9 Sep 2017 15:04:39 -0700 > From: Michael Butash > To: Main PLUG discussion list > Subject: Re: what sort of use cases/memory_needs/etc (was RE: > Warranty!!?!?!?!?!) > Message-ID: > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > On the note of memory, I get home after being on the road for a while > (1mo), and notice my desktop is wonky, refresh issues, but works. I find > Cinnamon consuming some 91g of my ram now. Funny how that works, guess > time to upgrade arch finally. > > Most days I wish compositing in desktops would go away, it is more trouble > than it is worth. > > -mb > > On Thu, Sep 7, 2017 at 12:43 PM, Aaron Jones wrote: > >> I run i3wm, luakit, discord, dropbox, and owncloud. Sometimes cmus, mutt, >> or firebird. >> >> I use about 5.9gb of my 32gb ram during normal usage. I don't keep more >> than 3 to 5 tabs open on average in luakit. >> >> Things don't usually pop off until I start using my system for work. >> >>> On Sep 7, 2017, at 11:28 AM, Matt Graham wrote: >>> >>>> On 2017-09-06 13:48, Carruth, Rusty wrote: >>>> So, I'm impressed by the memory/cpu load that Mr Graham has on his >>>> computer. And I thought I was a hog... er, I mean heavy resource >>>> user! >>> >>> It's *usually* not that bad/high. Building one particular Android >> project causes this older machine (16G, 2 core i5, 500G SSD), to be almost >> unusable for as long as it takes all the java to compile/link/build. >> Ordinary Android projects and standard browsing, mail clients, apache, and >> so forth run fine. I don't know what precisely they did to make that >> project be an enormous hog. It's not even particularly complicated. >>> >>>> But I agree with him that 16G is getting close to the minimum >>>> required amount if you do much web browsing with lots of tabs (Ok, he >>>> didn't exactly say that, but it was implied) >>> >>> I probably have fewer tabs open than almost anyone. 9-15 usually. >>> >>> Steve Litt wrote: >>>> Firefox is a total pig. Most other browsers tie up much less >>>> resources, especially with a lot of open tabs, especially with >>>> challenging javascript encumbered sites. >>>> Also, IMHO when you start to see your browser(s) run slowly, it's >>>> time to start closing tabs. If you have a tab that you're for sure >>>> going to have to have later, bookmark it. >>> >>> Yes, pretty much. I find that closing tabs helps, but firefox is a >> collection of code parts written by the lowest bidder and flying in >> extremely close formation around a memory leak. I try to restart it every >> day, which seems to work. And I'd guess that people use tabs instead of >> bookmarks because they retain approximately where you were on a page (good >> for really long pages), and there's less commitment. >>> >>> Aaron Jones wrote: >>>> Minimum 32gb ddr4 checking in. [...] thanks to bloat and Lennart >>>> Poettering, I now need 32gb of ram, 8 cores, and a multi terrabyte >>>> ssd just to be effective. The future is here ladies and gents... >>>> and it is gloriously unoptimized. >>> >>> Modern programmers don't seem to care about optimizing things. >> Curiously enough, KDE 5 is fairly snappy for me on a machine with only 8G. >> Opening a link with gwenview in a dir that contained 17000 links to other >> images pegged the CPU for a while as it generated thumbnails for all the >> links and preloaded a bunch of them. I'm not sure how often people do that >> sort of thing--it was more of a "what happens if I stress this program out >> a lot?" than anything. >>> >>> -- >>> Crow202 Blog: http://crow202.org/wordpress >>> There is no Darkness in Eternity >>> But only Light too dim for us to see. >>> --------------------------------------------------- >>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: > > ------------------------------ > > Subject: Digest Footer > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > ------------------------------ > > End of PLUG-discuss Digest, Vol 147, Issue 8 > ******************************************** --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss