One thing that I always find amusing is when people start whingeing about performance then you see a statement like I use chrome with 20 to 50 tabs open what justification have you got for WAISTING so many resources on browser tabs I find it laughable I have not had ONE person come back with a valid excuse for such waste yet maybe you will do better I doubt it thou .
Pete . On Sun, 2 Sep 2018, 03:53 Draciron Smith, <draci...@gmail.com> wrote: > My normal desktop is Chrome with 20-50 tabs open, on this machine it's KDE > 4 so I had to switch to Open Office as Office Libre was super unstable. I > often have 7 to 10 documents open at same time as those Chrome tabs, plus > a Kate session with 3-10 docs in the Kate session plus misc apps such as > Dolphin, Krusader, Kconvert, Audacity, perhaps a few FF tabs and so on. I > do that on 4 gigs of ram and have for years. > > On the first machine machine I put KDE 5 on, it only has 2 gigs of ram and > 2 gig swap partition. It's sort of reflex for me to create swap partition > same size as ram. In hindsight I probably should have gone with a 4 gig > swap partition. With Akondi running it will even if I'm doing nothing on > that machine I will hear it start churning several hours after I boot it. > If I start putting a load on it then it craters rather quickly. > > That's the thing. I am not using ANY Akondi agents. I use webmail clients > for email, my phone is my contact manager, I never use Knotes or any other > Akondi enabled apps. > > Since I disabled Akondi I have no problem having several Office Libre > documents open at the same time as a dozen Chrome or FF tabs including > several that use Flash, as well as 2 to 5 PDF files open, Clemintine, > perhaps a Krusader or a few Dolphin windows and a Konsole session. I always > have a Konsole window open. First thing I do when I reboot. Since disabling > Akondi the only time I reboot is normal Kernel update reboots. Prior that I > might get a day or two before having to reboot, usually a cold boot using > the power button because it's churning so bad I can't even get to a console > window or SSH in to bring the machine down gracefully. > > On this machine SSh server is running and I took down some stuff like > Samba and MySQL and I had Barrios installed but it was too heavy on > resources for my liking on this machine so I removed it. My original intent > with this machine was to essentially a jukebox and once I'm done figuring > out if I can continue using KDE or am going to be forced to switched to > XFCE I will be building a few newer machines and this will go back to > being primarily a jukebox. My old Mac died however and I had to offload > what I normally do on the Mac to this 2 gig machine and with Akondi > disabled it's a little slow despite being a 7 year old Emachine that was > low end even 7 years ago, but gets the job done. I had 1.5 gigs of Ram > consumed before I opened ANYTHING with Akondi running. It essentially > turned a 2 gig machine into a half gig machine. > > I'll agree with you on FF being more memory intensive. In fact is has a > rather large memory leak somewhere, especially when dealing with Flash > websites. Which is the primary reason I switched to Chrome as primary > browser about 5 years ago. I still use FF for plugins that Chrome doesn't > have such as downloading videos, for secondary email accounts, things like > that. I don't usually leave it continuously running like I do Chrome which > stays up from about 10 seconds after I reboot until I reboot again or after > 2 or 3 months I might kill it and restart it to recover memory lost to > memory leaks if a kernel update hasn't forced me to reboot in a few > months. All my machines run 24/7. > > On Sat, Sep 1, 2018 at 11:56 AM René J.V. Bertin <rjvber...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> On Saturday September 01 2018 10:34:02 Draciron Smith wrote: >> >> > The difference is night and day for me. I'll get an app open, maybe a >> > music player, maybe a web browser. Open a 2nd app and the machine starts >> > churning. If I don't head strait for a konsole window and kill Akondi >> > processes I will wind up mashing the power button as it locks up so >> hard I >> >> Something is definitely wrong there. What Akonadi agents are or were you >> using that blocked the machine to such an extent? It doesn't make sense >> that they would consume more resources than FF or Chrome running a >> full-blown session (FF is worse in terms of RAM usage than Chrome these >> days)... >> I'm tempted to ask if you have a sufficiently large swap partition but >> you must because otherwise I don't see how one could run FF/Chrome plus >> LibreOffice with a bunch of documents open. >> >>
