Re: [oi-dev] Memory use with Firefox

2024-01-04 Thread Gary Mills
On Thu, Jan 04, 2024 at 10:38:00AM -0800, Bill Sommerfeld via oi-dev wrote: > > swap reports on used, reserved, and available swap space for virtual memory; > it doesn't report on free physical memory. ZFS operates largely below > the virtual memory system and manages physical memory. I was a

Re: [oi-dev] Memory use with Firefox

2024-01-04 Thread Gary Mills
On Thu, Jan 04, 2024 at 12:11:49PM -0600, John Howard wrote: > Pattern is 14 processes after 14 days. New process per day. That's not my experience. The number of processes quickly reaches a maximum. > Script to close the app at the end of each day and restart the app > for a new day. Then see w

[oi-dev] OpenIndiana CoWorking Session

2024-01-04 Thread Till Wegmueller
Hello friends of illumos and OpenIndiana After the Holiday I would like to continue the CoWorking sessions. This weeks CoWorking Sessions are on this Sunday 17:00 CET at https://meet.chaostreffbern.ch/OpenIndianaCoWorkingSessions Join us to collaborate on working on #OpenIndiana and bring you

Re: [oi-dev] Memory use with Firefox

2024-01-04 Thread Gordon Ross
Aren't those LWPs being shown? (not processes) On Thu, Jan 4, 2024 at 11:54 AM Gary Mills wrote: > > I have a system that I mostly use for web brousing. It has an AMD > Ryzen 7 2700 Eight-Core Processor, and runs a recent version of OI, > from 2023-11-07. It has 48 gigs of memory with an 8-gig

Re: [oi-dev] Memory use with Firefox

2024-01-04 Thread Joshua M. Clulow via oi-dev
On Thu, 4 Jan 2024 at 08:54, Gary Mills wrote: > Why are there so many firefox processes? I was expecting one process > per tab. Clearly there are many more. Why do some of the processes > have so many threads? How much memory does firefox want? Firefox increasingly uses multiple processes as

Re: [oi-dev] Memory use with Firefox

2024-01-04 Thread Bill Sommerfeld via oi-dev
On 1/4/24 08:54, Gary Mills wrote: $ swap -sh total: 4.98G allocated + 2.00G reserved = 6.98G used, 25.91G available The free memory seems to have stabilized at about 26 gigs. I assume that ZFS allocates memory from this free space. swap reports on used, reserved, and available swap

Re: [oi-dev] Memory use with Firefox

2024-01-04 Thread John Howard
Pattern is 14 processes after 14 days. New process per day. Script to close the app at the end of each day and restart the app for a new day. Then see what happens. BTW, you have a monster system. ___ oi-dev mailing list oi-dev@openindiana.org https://

[oi-dev] Memory use with Firefox

2024-01-04 Thread Gary Mills
I have a system that I mostly use for web brousing. It has an AMD Ryzen 7 2700 Eight-Core Processor, and runs a recent version of OI, from 2023-11-07. It has 48 gigs of memory with an 8-gig swap partition. Using Firefox 119.0.1, I noticed that Firefox became sluggish only a few days after boot.