On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 8:29 AM, Scott Balneaves <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 04:57:31PM -0800, john wrote: > >> I just got to wondering (in an idle sort of way) why applications like >> openoffice which is so much bigger than firefox seem to run just fine >> with 24 copies open and firefox doesn't? > > Well, I think firefox will too. Here's a test: get your 24 students to JUST > browse around on a site that doesn't involve any Java, or flash. Something > like wikipedia. I *know*, that they'll be able to do it just fine. Because > wikipedia pages load, and then they just sit there. Sure, you scroll around, > but all the processing's mainly done: now you're just scrolling around in a > page. > > This is exactly the same as openoffice. Once it's loaded, it's loaded. You > scroll around in the doc, but you're not doing anything computationally > intense. > >> Way back when -- I remember >> folks touting the efficient way that OO used memory, and in fact some >> folks left a version running all the time so that kids would have >> there instance open even faster. > > This is still the case, for both FF an OpenOffice. > >> A sort of crude pre-linking. The idea >> back then was that another oowriter instance was just another thread >> off the parent, as I remember it. Was that a fundamental >> misunderstanding of the way stuff worked under 4.2 or is Firefox or >> flash written in a much less scalable way than OO? Or something else > > Problem is *entirely* flash. Because it just sits there and keeps chewing up > cycles. Web animations. Ads. Videos. If there's 4 or five flash apps on a > page (say, 3 flash ads, 1 menu application, and a video), each consuming a > significant % of the cpu's cycles, *one page from one browser* can peg a > machine. Now multiply this by the other 23 terminals. >
Not only that. Each instance of Flash is multi threaded. Here's hoping Google/Youtube moves to an Open standard. I'm crossing my fingers that Google's purchase of On2 will kill Flash. -- Robert Arkiletian Eric Hamber Secondary, Vancouver, Canada -- edubuntu-users mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-users
