Interviewed by CNN on 11/11/2012 04:35, Ant told the world: > On 11/10/2012 5:59 PM PT, Ron Hunter typed: > >>> I just found a way sort of. Close all tabs and it will ask me to close >>> XX tabs. Dang, I have 123 tabs in ONE window!! I thought it was about >>> 50! However, I have to do this for each window and do the basic math. :( >> >> I hesitate to ask... how many windows do you keep open? 123 tabs is a >> LOT. Maybe a few minutes cleaning house would help. Grin. > > Usually one or two windows. Currently, I have 138 tabs + 17 tabs from > two windows. Yeah, that probably explains why sometimes seamonkey.exe > hogs up to 2 GB of memory and get very slow/freezes (have to kill it > like a few minutes ago). Yes, I am that crazy. I guess I am the only who > does this? :P However, my 64-bit W7 machines (8 GB of RAM) at work > handle this better so maybe my old, updated Windows XP Pro. SP3 with 2.5 > GB of RAM can't handle this extreme setup well? :P
I have been reading the postings of the MemShrink and Snappy teams and it appears that, albeit uncommon, your case is hardly unique -- there's a good number of "extreme tab users" out there. The good news is that there are a number of patches in various stages of completion aimed at helping in your sort of use case. The bad news is that no, I don't see your XP machine ever handling it gracefully. 32-bit Windows by default does not give more than 2Gb to any single application unless you run it with the /3Gb switch; and with 2.5 total RAM, probably not even that without a lot of disk swapping. XP is getting more and more annoying all the time, anyway. I have this feeling that the security patches MS released over the last couple years have not received any consideration regarding performance impact; if it works, it's fine for them, even if the patch causes serious performance problems. Case in point: Microsoft Update nowadays uses oodles of RAM for about 20 minutes right after XP boots up... the machine is basically unusable for the first half-hour in the morning. The only known cure is to disable Microsoft Update and go back to Windows Update. I have been upgrading older machines at work to Windows 7 with reasonably good results. As long as they have 1 Gb RAM, a dual-core CPU and good driver support (video is the one that most often is missing), the end result is better with Windows 7 than with XP. -- MCBastos This message has been protected with the 2ROT13 algorithm. Unauthorized use will be prosecuted under the DMCA. -=-=- ... Sent from my Commodore 64. * Added by TagZilla 0.7a1 running on Seamonkey 2.13.2 * Get it at http://xsidebar.mozdev.org/modifiedmailnews.html#tagzilla _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
