Am 18.10.2014 um 17:49 schrieb James: > Hello, > > > OK, so I run a minimalist DE (LXDE) and htop to monitor > system performance. The mobo has an fx8350 with 8 cores > (currently set at 4GHz (unclocked). The system rarily > uses over 8/32 gig of it's ram. So the resources are not > even close to exhausted. cpus mostly idle. > > I do keep (2) browsers up, with tabs aplenty, but they are not being used > very much. It's mostly a myriad of documents to read while I hack at code. > > Often the latency is minimal and the system response (as guaged) > from the keyboard is fine (quick). Other times the active terminal > session is a pig mostly in the web browser windows. > > So. Is there a make.conf setting or elsewhere to make the > terminal session response times, in the browsers (seamonkey, firefox) > faster? Something like a ram_disk just for the browsers? > > Note, after I finish up a project, many (browser) terminal sessions > are deleted and things are fine again. I'm just asking for a way > to ensure more ram/cpu resources are dedicated to the browsers > to boost performance, on a dynamic basis (without manual intervention). > > Maybe a ram_disk_cache (dynamic renice to-10 for the active window?) just > for the active browser window (the browser window I'm typing in? (background > code compilations are not concurrent with > the typing latency in the browser windows)..... > > ideas? > > > James > > >
idea: have a look at the websites you visit. Some load&run megabytes of javascript which bogs down everything. Nothing you can do about that except turning of js.
