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Diego Calleja wrote: > Opera is probably the best browser when it comes to "features per byte > of memory used" Really? If I'm making use it, maybe visiting a few hundred pages a day, and opening 20 tabs, I find I have to kill it every few days, to reclaim the memory it's hogging, when its resident size exceeds my RAM size and it starts chugging. > Also, fontconfig allocates ~100 KB of memory per program launched. > There're patches to fix that by creating a mmap'able cache which is > shared between all the applications which has been merged in the > development version. I think there're many low-hanging fruits at > all levels, the problem is not just mozilla & friends 100kB per program, even for 100 programs, is nothing compared a browser's 300MB footprint. Now, some of that 300MB is permanently swapped out for the first few days of running. Libraries and such. Which is relevant to this thread: swap is useful, just so you can swap out completely unused parts of programs. (The parts which could be optimised away in principle). -- Jamie - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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