Re: [Discuss] memory management

2015-06-24 Thread Matthew Gillen
I think plugin-container doesn't get launched until it needs something like the flash plugin. On 6/23/2015 10:03 PM, John Abreau wrote: ps x | grep plug yields nothing but the grep process. ps x -o pid,ppid,cmd | grep 12345 (where 12345 is firefox's PID) yields nothing but the grep process.

Re: [Discuss] memory management

2015-06-24 Thread Bill Ricker
I think plugin-container doesn't get launched until it needs something like the flash plugin. ​which, if you're running NoScript, is under your control. (If not, why not ? :-)​ -- Bill Ricker bill.n1...@gmail.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/n1vux

Re: [Discuss] SSD Drives

2015-06-24 Thread Derek Atkins
Bill, Bill Bogstad bogs...@pobox.com writes: hdparm -I /dev/sd gives me firmware revision along with a bunch of other stuff for hard drives. Can't recall if I've used it with SSDs, but I suspect SATA based SSDs should respond. It works (once I actually installed hdparm). Thanks for

Re: [Discuss] memory management

2015-06-24 Thread Tom Metro
Matthew Gillen wrote: I think plugin-container doesn't get launched until it needs something like the flash plugin. Right. That's been my observation. It doesn't get used for extensions. Only plugins, and I think only ones using a legacy API at that. And is loaded only when needed. -Tom --

Re: [Discuss] A laptop for Linux

2015-06-24 Thread Rohan Joshi
Hey, I found a person willing to sell me a good condition T510 with an i7 and 8 gigs of memory. Price is somewhere around 300$. Do you people think its a good deal..?? Looked up on google, the hardware seems compatible with ubuntu. Rohan On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 6:23 PM, Kent Borg