Paul B. Gallagher wrote:
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.
In that case try to change the memory cache by using about:config. Look
for the entry browser.cache.memory.capacity, it most likely shows
200000. Change it to 524288 (512 MB) or 1048576 (1 GB), and see what
happens. As you can see, I like to use values based on powers of 2.
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