Dirk Munk wrote:
For many people the browser is their primary application, so making it
run as smoothly as possible is quite a logical pursuit.
For any PC I recommend a minimum of 8 GB RAM these days, for the
majority of users this will prevent disk swapping, there's always
sufficient memory. For 'power' users, you can install 16 GB, and if you
like to waste lots of memory by having many big applications open at the
same time (like me), put 32 GB in your PC.
Even with 8 GB, there should be more than sufficient memory to give
Seamonkey 1 GB instead of the current default 200 MB for instance.
Also, keep in mind that the memory cache setting is a maximum value that
Seamonkey can use. At the moment I have the cache setting at 4 GB, but
when I look at the task manager, the whole application uses about 3.6
GB, That means Seamonkey is only using a fraction of that allowed 4 GB.
I have 8 GB of RAM, but SM doesn't come anywhere near that. When I have
a lot going on, it seems to peak in the high one-gig or the low two-gig
range (maybe I'm not pushing it as hard as you do). At any rate, that's
not a limiting factor for me. (FWIW, I "let SeaMonkey manage the size of
my cache," but as noted upthread that's the disk cache.)
But I have noticed that there does seem to be a cap on CPU usage. When
it gets to about 25%, SM slows to a crawl or even hangs (the cursor
turns to a spinning ring and the screen goes pale in Win7), and the only
solutions are either force-close it through Windows or wait three to
five minutes until it thinks things though. This even happens when there
are plenty of CPU cycles available. Other apps are unaffected, so I just
switch to another and do something useful while I'm waiting.
--
War doesn't determine who's right, just who's left.
--
Paul B. Gallagher
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