Daniel wrote:
Glen wrote:
Uwe,
I would have to agree with your results. At first, the idea was to just
use one program and have setup tools that were easier to manage. But
once I stopped using the FF+Thunderbird combo I also noticed a
considerable difference in processor usage when running Seamonkey's
browser and mail apps at the same time.
Let's just enjoy the results!
Glen
Uwe Brauer wrote:
Hallo
I just played a little around using
(Kubuntu 8.04, but all seamonkey/thb/fixr are not part of Ubuntu).
ps ux
For either seamonkey 2.0 (with the mail application running (check 2 imap
servers in a 10 Min interval)) and various webpages open.
Or firefox 3.5 the same pages open
and thunderbird 3.0 (with the mail application running (check 2 imap
servers in a 10 Min interval))
I was very surprised to find out the following:
When I run
seamonkey alone it consumed around 12% of my CPU.
When I started firefox + thunderbird
firefox consumed around a little more 15% of my CPU
and thunderbird almost 40%!!!
I never really thought of switching from seamonkey to
thunderbird+firfox, now these numbers convinced me even
more.
Can somebody confirm these numbers or the general impression?
Uwe Brauer
I wonder why people are so concerned with using as few cycles of
processor power as possible.
If you've got 4Gigahertz of cycles (yes, I know!!!!), why are people so
pleased to just be using half a gig to do things and then sit there
twiddling your thumbs??
Sure, if you're simultaneously using photo-manipulation programs and
drafting programs and the 1812 Overture playing in the foreground, sure,
you don't want to be using much of your cycles on WEB stuff, but
other-wise......
Daniel
Well what if you don't have several programs open just FF/TB open and
nothing else, and have the 4 gigs of memory and you still have slow downs.
I've always said that SM uses less energy than FF/TB combined (15% vs
55% for FF/TB Combined) Even though the fellow stated some of his
argument backwards.
What happening is FF/TB share some code. But because they are two
different applications you have two or more instances of the code
library being loaded twice or more.
Where as, In SM its loaded once and shared between the components as needed.
Granted each individual program may be smaller size, to load on the hard
Drive, than SM.
But combined they take up more Physical Space on the Drive and take up
more memory space when being used.
That said I use SM most of the time (about 95%). but I have FF loaded on
occasions, where I need to go to just a website for a few minutes. Since
this computer's original HD crashed and burned and I had it replaced I
have yet to reinstall Thunderbird and probably never will, as long as
work continues on SeaMonkey.
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