On 2/27/19, Paul B. Gallagher <[email protected]> wrote: > Lee wrote: >> On 2/26/19, Paul B. Gallagher <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Yesterday, I wrote: >>> >>>> Pref set to 1048576. Let's see what happens. >>> >>> OK, 24 hours of life with a larger memory cache have shown: >>> >>> 1) No dramatic improvement in overall performance; >>> >>> 2) A lack of hangs when SM reaches 25% CPU usage -- it hasn't reached >>> that level during the test period. Rather, it seems to peak at 15–18%. >>> >>> So there may well be something to what Dirk Munk advised. I'll keep >>> running with this pref setting and watch for the hangs I used to get >>> regularly. When opportunities arise, I'll push it harder. >> >> What does about:cache show for memory now? >> >> I'm not seeing any hangs w/ seamonkey and still have the default >> Maximum storage size: 200000 KiB >> with >> Storage in use: 29998 KiB > > At the moment, I'm not pushing it, but here's what it shows: > > memory > Number of entries: 1212 > Maximum storage size: 1048576 KiB [that's my user-set limit] > Storage in use: 54939 KiB > >> And according to task manager, seamonkey is using 305MB of memory > > According to Task Manager, SM is using 1,051,192 KB of memory. Under > peak load, I would expect that to double; I haven't yet seen it reach 3 GB. > > I did have some trouble this afternoon as I was perusing Google News. > For some stories, I clicked "View full coverage" and each time I did, SM > hung. As before, CPU peaked at 26–27% and RAM usage was a little over 2 > GB. After two or three minutes, the cursor returned to its usual arrow > shape and CPU usage fell to under 10%. But the next time I clicked "View > full coverage," it was like standing on the brakes again.
Is this just with web pages open or do you also have mail and/or newsgroups open at the time? http://kb.mozillazine.org/Browser.cache.memory.capacity has a note that mail & newsgroups can be cached in memory, so if you have a huge inbox or newsgroup maybe that's it? Lee _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
