On Fri, 6 Nov 2020 07:48:40 -0700
Michael Butash via PLUG-discuss <plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:
Chrome/Chromium and Firefox are absolute pigs. I finally tamed Firefox
ty setting it to drop all cache and other stuff upon exit, and then I
shut down all instances of Firefox every day.
They all are pigs I find. Tried Brave, Chrome, Chromium, and keep ending up back at firefox as a lesser of evils. Chrome is the new IE, so now I *need* it occasionally for plugins. I've been using tab suspenders across each, doesn't help much.
My problem is I have to keep different profiles for different companies I work with, usually no less than 4-6 at a time, 2 at least for my personal gsuite and work. Mostly I do so for M$ O365/Teams, as they can't figure out how to make it work across organizations or seemingly comprehend why anyone would. Hint: Consultants that work for 5-10 orgs at a time. Each profile just ends up hoarding ram, which ends up being 30-40gb at times on my system.
I don't know how many VMs you run, but those eat up memory.
I have a mainstream Win10 build with visio and other windoze-y crap I need, 8gb of ram, and keep a few win10 ameliorated editions for clients to minimize footprint with 4gb. Usually only 2 windoze, 1 if I can. Occasionally a few other 2-4gb ram linux systems, but typically ~20gb for vbox and my vms. It's where all the other memory goes I have a hard time with, which I really can't identify.
What the heck kind of editor requires 3-4GB RAM? That sounds crazy to
me. Why do you have a few dozen files open simultaneously?
Fine questions really, this tends to be where I'm bit odd. I've found whether using Pluma, Gedit, or even qqnotepad, they all tend to get a bit crazy with a lot of tabs. I presume things like undo memory, things like that are adding up, but I'm still like geez, really?
Why so many? I mostly do network and security consulting, with config files from existing devices, resulting operational output extracted in text, across multiple orgs at a time. Not to mention configuration changes I'm making for template deployment off those, so it gets a bit crazy flipping between dozens of configs at a time.
If I could find better ways to manage some of this, it would be nice, but seems everything just dumps this sort of thing into memory hoarding.
Libreoffice is kind of a pig. Is there something else you can use? And
why a dozen or two simultaneous files open? This sounds like a workflow
nightmare. Do you mean one Libreoffice instance with 24 files open, or
a bunch of separate Libreoffices in VMs. If the latter, yeah, that's
going to burn a lot of RAM, even more than one instance with 24
documents.
I often blame Libreoffice, only to kill it with like 20 spreadsheets open, and 30 write files and find it was using (only) around 4gb of ram. I take notes a lot in libre because it's restore on crash has proven pretty flawless vs., well anything else. I mostly prefer pluma for text input and notes, but no good restore. Tried qqnotepad that had a restore function, it was highly dysfunctional.
Ohhhh, KDE. I call that Krash, Delay, Expand. See
http://troubleshooters.com/lpm/201202/201202.htm . I use OpenBox, which
is a low-RAM, just-the-facts window manager. On every machine I ever
used KDE, performance was bad and on lower RAM machines, things ground
to a halt.
Gnome and KDE are luxuries for folks with lightning fast processors and
huge quantities of RAM, who want their computers to perform like a 2015
computer with 4GB RAM.
Yes KDE is a pain, but both pretty and functional. I like it, though it friggin' hates me. Tried Mate/Cinnamon, i3, xfce, others randomly, just never cared for most.
My work and life on a single pc blend probably too much, but when I still can't seem to work functionally with 64-128gb of ram that simply no one else uses but me, I'm like wtf is wrong with my setup.
I'm running a 2014 computer:
* AMD A6-6400K APU with Radeon(tm) HD Graphics (dual core)
- 3.1Ghz dualcore
* 16GB RAM
* Openbox with dmenu and UMENU2
With no browsers open, this machine is is snappy as hell. With firefox
set to dump cache upon exit, as long as I do reasonable housekeeping on
tabs, and prophylactically close all firefox instances at least once a
day, everything's pretty good.
That being said, this is a 2014 machine, so I'm soon buying a 3.6 Ghz 6
core (65 watt) with 64GB RAM. This will give me more latitude in
running Chromium, which I need for Jitsi, and allow me less stringent
housekeeping in Firefox.
Perhaps this is just the price for working as I do. I also tend to keep things open to work perpetually as who needs work/life balance, so purging things would likely help.
Trying to work as I do under windoze as a test, it just couldn't hang. Perhaps I expect too much of linux, but it's far more capable at least, though when it gets wonky, it does so fast.
Thanks for the input here, I do appreciate it, as perhaps as said I am simply going about things a wrong way, thus the ask.
SteveT
Steve Litt
Autumn 2020 featured book: Thriving in Tough Times
http://www.troubleshooters.com/thrive
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