To swap or not to swap ;-) (was RE: To lvm or not to lvm)

[Michael Butash]

Until recently switching to firefox, chromium would usually chew up a good
30-50gb or ram with some rampant tab use and copious windows of them.
Firefox is worse, using a lot of cpu and taxing some threads.  I have to
kill it occasionally and restart it.  Not impressed so far with the fox
lately.  Lastpass is far inferior on it too, even more maddening.

Enterprise proxies are a pain, I hate them usually, Bluecoat, Forcepoint,
etc.  Occasionally with customers I find myself using or admining them, I
usually don't last long around them.  Agreed they make life difficult, but
around state, .gov, enterprise sectors, they're a necessary evil for
herding the non-technical l-users.

Weird they won't exclude internal traffic though, is that on purpose or
they just unknowing?  I can sort of see them wanting to examine all
traffic, even internal, but that's overhead they probably don't want want.
Even my last run with Forcepoint proxies usually recommend excluding
internal rfc1918 addressing as a default.

-mb

On Mon, Sep 24, 2018 at 3:28 PM Carruth, Rusty <Rusty.Carruth at smartm.com>
wrote:

> 80GB of memory?  And I thought I was bad at 15G ;-)
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> Firefox leaks, or something.  And our IT has a stupid rule in place that
> they force on us which makes it impossible to reach our private subnet
> since all 192.168.*.* addresses are forced to go to the web proxy (REALLY,
> local-only, non-routable IP addresses MUST go through a proxy??? Gah!!!).
> They have made it so we cannot change the proxy setting on our computer
> (other than on/off, as I remember), so since Chrome and Windows Exploiter
> use the lockdown setting I can’t even bother using them (short of turning
> off the proxy for them, which as I sit here typing I’m not sure I can do,
> and if I did then I couldn’t use it for anything else!).
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> Have filed a ticket with our IT, of course, but I’ll be lucky if I hear
> anything this month or even next.
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> Bah.
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> Rusty
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> My biggest issues are … browsers using 80gb of memory, and libreoffice
> going crazy occasionally.
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