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.
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