Re: Improving performance: RAM or CPU speed

2020-04-13 Thread deloptes
John Hasler wrote: > That's probably it.  Mozilla probably only want to support automatic > profile import one version back. I think to recall there was a statement that since version xxx it is default to create a new profile. There is no restriction to one version back.

Re: Improving performance: RAM or CPU speed

2020-04-13 Thread John Hasler
I wrote: > How often do you upgrade? I often go for months without doing so: > that may be why it happens to me. Celejar writes: > I usually upgrade as soon as a new version is available That's probably it. Mozilla probably only want to support automatic profile import one version back. I

Re: Improving performance: RAM or CPU speed

2020-04-13 Thread Celejar
On Mon, 13 Apr 2020 10:43:29 -0500 John Hasler wrote: > Celejar writes: > > I seem to have memory leaks with recent Firefox (currently 74.0.1-1 > > from Sid) - memory use goes slowly but steadily up, and eventually > > gets maxed out and the system grinds to a halt. It takes a while for > > this

Re: Improving performance: RAM or CPU speed

2020-04-13 Thread John Hasler
Celejar writes: > I seem to have memory leaks with recent Firefox (currently 74.0.1-1 > from Sid) - memory use goes slowly but steadily up, and eventually > gets maxed out and the system grinds to a halt. It takes a while for > this to happen, but I find myself eventually needing to kill and >

Re: Improving performance: RAM or CPU speed

2020-04-13 Thread Celejar
On Sat, 11 Apr 2020 10:21:42 -0500 John Hasler wrote: > rhkramer writes: > > When I have as few as 10 to 15 tabs open on the Firefox on my Jessie > > system, Firefox crashes (I mentioned in a previous post in this thread > > having a thousand or more tabs "open" in Firefox on Wheezy with > >

Re: Improving performance: RAM or CPU speed

2020-04-12 Thread John Hasler
Andrei writes: > How do you upgrade / from where do you get the packages? (apt, > manually installed deb, etc.) Apt from Debian/Sid. Just did it a couple of days ago. -- John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: Improving performance: RAM or CPU speed

2020-04-12 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 11 apr 20, 18:43:38, John Hasler wrote: > David Wright writes: > > What sort of upgrade? Just the regular security fixes (which seem to > > be quite frequent recently), or point-releases, or what? And what > > parts of your profile do you lose? Bookmarks, cookies (like the ones > > you

Re: Improving performance: RAM or CPU speed

2020-04-11 Thread John Hasler
David Wright writes: > What sort of upgrade? Just the regular security fixes (which seem to > be quite frequent recently), or point-releases, or what? And what > parts of your profile do you lose? Bookmarks, cookies (like the ones > you might want to keep for logins) or what? Upstream releases

Re: Improving performance: RAM or CPU speed

2020-04-11 Thread John Hasler
I wrote: > What Firefox version?  I used to see frequent Firefox crashes > (apparently memory leaks: my system is always up) but that stopped a few > years ago (though the irritation of that has been replaced by the > irritation of being required to create a new profile every time I > upgrade

Re: Improving performance: RAM or CPU speed

2020-04-11 Thread 0...@caiway.net
On Sat, 11 Apr 2020 10:21:42 -0500 John Hasler wrote: > What Firefox version? I used to see frequent Firefox crashes > (apparently memory leaks: my system is always up) but that stopped a > few years ago (though the irritation of that has been replaced by the > irritation of being required to

Re: Improving performance: RAM or CPU speed

2020-04-11 Thread David Wright
On Sat 11 Apr 2020 at 10:21:42 (-0500), John Hasler wrote: > rhkramer writes: > > When I have as few as 10 to 15 tabs open on the Firefox on my Jessie > > system, Firefox crashes (I mentioned in a previous post in this thread > > having a thousand or more tabs "open" in Firefox on Wheezy with > >

Re: Improving performance: RAM or CPU speed (was: Re: New RAM, does Debian has a tool to benchmark?)

2020-04-11 Thread deloptes
rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > RAM is still (to me) the most cost effective upgrade to an existing > system. yes this is true, but the bottle neck could be the cache or the disk IO. If you have slow disk, RAM can be advantage. If it is the cache, may be it is time to upgrade the system (cpu and/or

Re: Improving performance: RAM or CPU speed

2020-04-11 Thread deloptes
John Hasler wrote: > What Firefox version?  I used to see frequent Firefox crashes > (apparently memory leaks: my system is always up) but that stopped a few > years ago (though the irritation of that has been replaced by the > irritation of being required to create a new profile every time I >

Re: Improving performance: RAM or CPU speed

2020-04-11 Thread John Hasler
rhkramer writes: > When I have as few as 10 to 15 tabs open on the Firefox on my Jessie > system, Firefox crashes (I mentioned in a previous post in this thread > having a thousand or more tabs "open" in Firefox on Wheezy with > minimal problems -- yes occasional crashes (maybe once every 2 to 4 >

Re: Improving performance: RAM or CPU speed (was: Re: New RAM, does Debian has a tool to benchmark?)

2020-04-11 Thread rhkramer
On Saturday, April 11, 2020 09:39:06 AM deloptes wrote: > rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > > I think my bottleneck these days is again RAM > Look at the L1 L2 L3 cache. Many people underestimate this > > here are two examples from different pcs > > # lscpu | grep cache > L1d cache: 16K >

Re: Improving performance: RAM or CPU speed (was: Re: New RAM, does Debian has a tool to benchmark?)

2020-04-11 Thread deloptes
rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > I think my bottleneck these days is again RAM, on my daily driver I have > 16 GB, but sometimes have 1000 or more tabs "open" in Firefox (on Wheezy). > ("Open" is a little misleading -- occasionally Firefox crashes.  When it > does, I restart it and choose the option

Improving performance: RAM or CPU speed (was: Re: New RAM, does Debian has a tool to benchmark?)

2020-04-11 Thread rhkramer
On Saturday, April 11, 2020 05:45:56 AM Tixy wrote: > On Fri, 2020-04-10 at 20:01 -0700, David Christensen wrote: > > My laptop is maxed out at 2 GB. If I open more than a few browser > > windows with heavy JavaScript, the computer slows to a snail's pace. > > Would the amount of RAM affect