On 12/02/2012 12:55 AM, Jack Chastain wrote:
I am limited by the hardware to 1G RAM. The System monitor shows I am using roughly 80% (799M) when I start up and open my normal Chromium browser list of about 7 tabs, and little else.
I use Firefox as my primary web browser which seem to consume less memory then chrome or chromium. In my experience flashblock, adblock plus and noscript addons help firefox consume even less memory. Setting "don't load tabs until selected" in firefox tabs preferences can also help.
I did a little research on memory use under Ubuntu and mostly find older posts. I am not sure if there is anything I can tune to reduce overall memory use, but if anyone has suggestions, I'd love to hear.
Switching to Unity 2D might help because it's much lighter then compiz. You could also try a lighter window manager or other lighter desktop environment.
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