Re: Web-browser memory consumption on OS2008
Hi,
ext Tony Green wrote:
Has anybody else noticed that the web browser seems to take an awful lot of
memory up on OS2008?
Running top shows the browser process usually using more than 85% of
memory,
frequently well over 90%.
Not that I've any idea what it used on OS2007, as I don't think I ever
looked.
But it seems rather excessive - any suggestions as to how to reduce the
footprint? As I'm using the browser to display pages from the on-board
Apache server, built from the on-board MySQL database, I must be swapping an
awful lot...
Browser doesn't use all the memory that's virtually allocated to it.
A bit more realistic figure you get with:
pid=PID;
for type in Private_Dirty Private_Clean Shared_Dirty; do
awk /$type/ {sum += \$2}
END { printf(\$type:\t%6d kB\n\, sum) }
/proc/$pid/smaps;
done
Dirty is memory that has been written into i.e. it needs to be swapped
out if there's not enough memory (instead being just discarded and being
paged back from root file system if/when needed).
- Eero
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Web-browser memory consumption on OS2008
Has anybody else noticed that the web browser seems to take an awful lot of memory up on OS2008? Running top shows the browser process usually using more than 85% of memory, frequently well over 90%. Not that I've any idea what it used on OS2007, as I don't think I ever looked. But it seems rather excessive - any suggestions as to how to reduce the footprint? As I'm using the browser to display pages from the on-board Apache server, built from the on-board MySQL database, I must be swapping an awful lot... -- Tony Green Ipswich, Suffolk, England http://www.beermad.org.uk http://no2id-ip.web-brewer.co.uk ** This message is digitally signed. If your email client is unable to read digital signatures, you may see an attachment that you cannot open. See http://www.gnupg.org/(en)/documentation/faqs.html for more information. You can validate my PGP key from my website: http://www.beermad.org.uk/ * No Micro$oft products were used in the generation of this communication signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: Web-browser memory consumption on OS2008
This will hopefully change when the new gecko engine is ready for prime time. Currently, it's a resource hog. I've noticed the same for Opera and others on both Mac OS X and Linux. q.v. http://preview.tinyurl.com/2b9ude -Gary ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: Web-browser memory consumption on OS2008
On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 06:42:42PM +0100, Tony Green wrote: Has anybody else noticed that the web browser seems to take an awful lot of memory up on OS2008? I've noticed it too. This gets especially worse with embedded flash, like youtube and its ilk. Not that I've any idea what it used on OS2007, as I don't think I ever looked. But it seems rather excessive - any suggestions as to how to reduce the footprint? As I'm using the browser to display pages from the on-board Apache server, built from the on-board MySQL database, I must be swapping an awful lot... Help should be on the way: http://gizmodo.com/378045/mobile-firefox-is-six-times-faster-than-nokias-browser-on-the-n810 But you are on your own with the apache and mysql resource requirements ;) E -- Erik Hovland mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: http://hovland.org/ PGP/GPG public key available on request ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: Web-browser memory consumption on OS2008
On Tuesday 15 Apr 2008, Erik Hovland wrote: On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 06:42:42PM +0100, Tony Green wrote: Has anybody else noticed that the web browser seems to take an awful lot of memory up on OS2008? I've noticed it too. This gets especially worse with embedded flash, like youtube and its ilk. Help should be on the way: http://gizmodo.com/378045/mobile-firefox-is-six-times-faster-than-nokias-br owser-on-the-n810 Sadly not. I tried Fennec earlier today and unfortunately I found it an even bigger memory-hog than the current browser. In fact it actually managed to top 100%, which could have been entertaining without a swap-file. -- Tony Green Ipswich, Suffolk, England http://www.beermad.org.uk http://no2id-ip.web-brewer.co.uk ** This message is digitally signed. If your email client is unable to read digital signatures, you may see an attachment that you cannot open. See http://www.gnupg.org/(en)/documentation/faqs.html for more information. You can validate my PGP key from my website: http://www.beermad.org.uk/ * No Micro$oft products were used in the generation of this communication ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: Web-browser memory consumption on OS2008
Have you tried using adblock plus for MicroB? http://browser-extras.garage.maemo.org/news/5/ ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: Web-browser memory consumption on OS2008
On Tuesday 15 Apr 2008, Gary wrote: Have you tried using adblock plus for MicroB? http://browser-extras.garage.maemo.org/news/5/ Interesting to see that it exists (I was unaware) but I can't see how it would help unless there are ads on the page that can be blocked. I'm getting high memory use even on my own content, which obviously doesn't have anything I want to block... -- Tony Green Ipswich, Suffolk, England http://www.beermad.org.uk http://no2id-ip.web-brewer.co.uk ** This message is digitally signed. If your email client is unable to read digital signatures, you may see an attachment that you cannot open. See http://www.gnupg.org/(en)/documentation/faqs.html for more information. You can validate my PGP key from my website: http://www.beermad.org.uk/ * No Micro$oft products were used in the generation of this communication signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: Web-browser memory consumption on OS2008
On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 12:56 PM, Tony Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sadly not. I tried Fennec earlier today and unfortunately I found it an even bigger memory-hog than the current browser. In fact it actually managed to top 100%, which could have been entertaining without a swap-file. I just installed Fennec, and while it did hog resources on start-up, it seemed fine after that. Except I couldn't enter any text to go to sites other than Mozilla, because it wouldn't show me a menu (so I could paste text) and wouldn't pop up the on-screen keyboard. I'll try it again when I get where I can hook up a USB keyboard and see if that will allow me to actually browse the Web, but it looks like it will be useless on the N800 until they come out with the public version that includes full functionality. Mark ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: Web-browser memory consumption on OS2008
On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 02:36:42PM -0600, Mark wrote: and wouldn't pop up the on-screen keyboard. You should be able to press the middle button of the d-pad to get the on-screen thumb keyboard up. At least, I can on my N800. Mark pgpR7ySYCVkau.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: Web-browser memory consumption on OS2008
On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 4:45 PM, Mark Somerville [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 02:36:42PM -0600, Mark wrote: and wouldn't pop up the on-screen keyboard. You should be able to press the middle button of the d-pad to get the on-screen thumb keyboard up. At least, I can on my N800. Mark That's helpful (I had forgotten that trick), and does allow me to *add* text to what's in the location bar, but it won't let me delete what's already in there, so I'm still stuck. I think this alpha release is targeted specifically for the N810 and assumes a hardware keyboard, for which hopefully the backspace and delete keys will work. I'll test that theory when I get home to my USB keyboard. I'm really wishing I could afford a folding bluetooth keyboard right now... Mark ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
