Gabriel wrote:
Dirk Munk wrote on 14/02/2019 19:13:
Gabriel wrote:
Dirk Munk wrote on 14/02/2019 14:51:
Dirk Munk wrote:
I'm using the 64 bit builds of WG9s.
I'm very happy with them in general.
However, after installing a new version of 2.49.5 a short while
ago, I experienced some weird problems like keystrokes that
became garbled, very sluggish responses etc. A new upgrade to 2.53
didn't help, so I tried to figure out what might be the cause.
Then I had a hunch, and I checked the config file for the browser
cache setting. It was just about 0.5 GB, and I'm sure it was much
bigger.
I've now increased browser.cache.memory.capacity to 2 GB
(2097152), and all problems are gone.
After increasing browser.cache.memory.capacity to 4 GB (4194304),
the browser runs even more smoothly. Nice.
What's the difference with the "let SM manage the size of my cache"
preference?
That is the disk cache, so files on disk, I'm talking about the
memory cache, in RAM.
Maybe that setting is Windows only, because on my Mac I see SM using a
lot of RAM between 3 and 5 GB (I have 24 GB) and it's not so fast
anyway (it often freezes), even if the value for
"browser.cache.memory.capacity" is "200000".
That is the reason Seamonkey is freezing. Change the value to 2097152 (2
GB), and see what happens. Seamonkey will only use as much as it needs.
Shouldn't be the OS to decide the amount of RAM?
No, every professional operating system has ways to limit the memory use
(and other resources) of an application or a user. Suppose you change
the memory cache to 10GB, then Seamonkey will request memory when it
needs it, until that 10GB is consumed. It will then have to swap to disk.
Do you know what "browser.cache.memory.max_entry_size" is about?
If I interpret this correctly, it is the maximum size of an element on a
web page. Each web page has elements like photographs etc. that are
cached, but if such an element is bigger then this max_entry_size it
will not be cached.
Thank you.
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