Edward wrote: > NFN Smith wrote: > > >> I also use Seamonkey on a desktop Linux box of unknown vintage. I >> bought the base configuration about 11 years ago, and the original >> configuration was with an AMD Athlon processor. I just upgraded the >> motherboard and case when the motherboard failed, where the CPU is a >> little more recent AMD, but definitely older than anything Ryzen. >> >> This machine has 8 GB of RAM, and I don't use the browser heavily, but >> I've never seen memory issues there. >> >> Smith > > Could be because of the 8Gb memory. Both of my desktops have 3+ Gb > memory, but the CPU's (both AMD) are somewhat different. > > I changed the configuration file to use RAM for the cache, instead of > the disk, which resulted in nothing noticeably different between the > two. Once something on the system began to use the Swap partition again, > performance dropped as it always does when Swap is used. I then changed > the settings back to the defaults. > > I'm still surprised that even when Swap usage was minimal ~5Mb, there > was still plenty of RAM available to use, which had me thinking why Swap > was being used at all. > >
There is a "sappiness" parameter that is adjustable in linux, perhaps you have it set in such a way that it is swapping more that is proper for your use of the system. Looking at my /etc/systolic.conf I see lines: # # Decrease swap usage to a more reasonable level cm.sappiness =10 Dave Dave _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
