On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 03:05:25PM +0200, Stefan Unterweger wrote: >I do know that this thread is now several weeks old, but I didn't >see this particular reply until now and just _had_ to comment on >it. :o) > >* Miciah Dashiel Butler Masters on Mon, Jul 05, 2010 at 07:12:25PM +0000: >> Oh, and one other pet peeve I forgot to mention: Unlike Chrome and >> Firefox, ELinks doesn't burn CPU (and thus generate heat and waste >> battery) when it's idle. > >On the contrary: This is the one sore spot i have with Elinks*. >If it is idle with more than, say, two or three tabs open, then >it racks up CPU usage to extremes, and it doesn't take much for >Elinks to gobble up the entire CPU just for being idle.
I have never seen such behaviour with ELinks. ELinks used to have a large number of wakeups (10 per second), but I fixed that problem (before 0.11.5 and 0.12pre2, I think). My laptop often runs on battery, so I watch out for programs that cause excessive wakeups, and ELinks is does not cause excessive wakeups on my system. I definitely have never seen it use a large amount of CPU while idle. What version of ELinks are you using? What OS are you using? Do you have any user scripts? >With the current temperatures approaching 100°, I have to keep >Elinks closed and only fire it up when I actually have to browse >something, otherwise my machine overheats from the CPU load. I have an Intel Core 2 Duo, so I am very wary of high CPU usage. I, too, have been frustrated on many occasions by high CPU usage causing my computer to shut down. >s//un > > >* The other being the perversely high memory footprint, > which easily surpasses the weight of my typical Opera > session. Last time I checked Elinks was at ~600M... That's very odd. I have 26 tabs in 3 terminals (which is very few for me), and ELinks is taking 372 MiB VSZ, and 86.3 MiB by its internel accounting (File -> Resource info). How large is your cache? (See Document -> Cache -> Memory cache -> Size; I have 512M, which I consider rather large.) What OS are you using? (I am using Ubuntu Maverick with Linux 2.6.35rc5.) How are you accounting memory? (Last I heard, it is notoriously difficult to get an accurate number on Linux because of COW on fork, shared libraries, and similar.) What version of ELinks are you using? Do you have any user scripts? Do you have debugging enabled? (Debugging might increase memory usage substantially.) Are you willing to investigate the problem with strace and possibly gdb? -- Miciah Dashiel Butler Masters <miciah.mast...@gmail.com> _______________________________________________ elinks-users mailing list elinks-users@linuxfromscratch.org http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/elinks-users
