-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 07 Sep 2010 12:44:34 -0600 Aaron Toponce <xxx> wrote:
> On 09/07/2010 10:15 AM, Morgan Gangwere wrote: > You must not use Chromium/Chrome then. It chews through much more > memory with its process-per-tab feature. Much more than Firefox too. Actually, I have used Chromium on this box, and used it for quite a while. It was speedy enough at the time, but Midori has proven to be much better. > Again, this is the feature of any tab-based browser. You are caching > each page in each tab. Not only are you caching the pages, but the > browser needs to keep track of what page is associated with what tab, > and the tabs history independent of the others. This is a feature, and > you can turn this off it if bothers you. Worst case, don't use tabs, > and you'll notice your browser using much less memory. <rant> Here's the problem though: Disk thrashing is *bad*. I mean *really* bad. I dislike it when an app decides that there's an infinite amount of bandwidth available to them, both for network access and disk access. Anything that *relies* on disk caching (save, maybe for a swapdisk) is generally going to *slog*. </rant> What FF does is not cache the /content/ to disk, but the ENTIRE memory stream. This would be good if I had a nice set of SATA-3 RAID'd disks with a link right to the mobo, but its *not* good when you have a tiny little PATA disk that barely pulls 40GB. <rant> I'm not going to argue semantics or details (especially not here) but this is more a fundamental flaw of application design as it is currently taught. I took a C++ class where the instructor used a book which claimed that "Desktop computers have at lest 1GB of RAM available at any one given time" and that malloc'ing 1GiB at a time is a "Good Idea". they also claimed that "Modern Computers have at least 10GB of free space" -- I've worked on boxes (debian boxes even!) where the free space was measured in /a few hundred megs/. </rant> Software Development as it is taught assumes the Greatest Thing Since Last Wednesday™ and it gets on my nerves. Coming from > Midori also doesn't have extension capability, and its plugin > architecture is severely limited. Your browser does a lot for you, a > lot more than I think you realize. Midori doesn't use the amount of > RAM Firefox does, because its feature set is substantially smaller. > You could call this "bloat" in Firefox, if you wish, or crucial > productivity tools. I don't use extensions to begin with, so I can't pass judgment. I do know that the extension framework in Midori is good enough that Adblock has been ported over, though. I so far have /not/ had many problems with Midori. I guess I'm just used to software crashing because I'm normally a Windows guy*. - -- Morgan Gangwere "The light you see at the end of the tunnel is your imagination." * Fillet me later, I have college to deal with. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJMhpR8AAoJEEURiCSotvJDs7EP/0Mp9AZdCmf+oLKBIluTkv2x DZ1fNUQPsjuHnn376Ps/V7ICfyZ3QCgb0jDebdCwhgW3cF6XmCmZpdUZ/1rMtrL2 EXeVWvWF89rre8kp6qRfHVJ8tvJOOt6c4+r4tm7x2PNGbEFYY8dxK4hoGCxrBCXg gziXuOwt6MeNZkYTSWX8RBl1viqM5nkg67aZMFQ9A4plhjgKJan1/9RI3xo3hDuY IX0B70y2TN1vAFFMM5hWq2OxLZLZJihzpT3tOQD2xWseQvN5CEquEnDEuCgulMT8 R+QxyZ/RhCGdKP7A0R1+XIGXtrYrlxZOzTGb/wW8yWaVRWqi+Lc7q2PXBSQCoTp8 C5I1m7li0J2LOenrWZaD27QqWp38T2iq2mqGkxLQEVNuPoLWhGCn5UZybA3jbY6z HsHeWf2f2VxuHsthBoL0KSOMqCKZfxrHI9Sp+/3l6Sm8hDyLlnY8YPzrpQ0aRQJQ Qm7avM4JU4khLd8C5ck3KUUBpICOICs/wHeSx2wsIUDVDcXQszcBs8IW5KgNI6J7 juUOYKCec5C22yuMFEWwZzfi5+27Vk2DLz6rw7lxam0pdDrJD+gm5oKV0NqdeMSQ RYMOgQ27KnypS/wUcgxUR2Rgu80pSEoenItWuDvL5WG5Z3qOyXE44MYq9hWzpfcj URXfdK39MTQ5pPvdpfS7 =opLZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----