On Wed, 2024-12-11 at 21:37 +0000, Andy Smith wrote: > Is this system at its max of memory? If not, then maxing it out will > be > a very cheap upgrade that will be absolutely worth it. If you don't > know > if it's maxed, tell us the motherboard, show us the output of "sudo > lshw" or something.
RAM already at max. More RAM would require new MB. > If it's not running off of flash storage already then doing that will > also be well worth it, but I wouldn't bother unless the memory can be > increased first. Highest priority swap partitions are on flash drives/ > If you're not going to be able to increase the memory then I would > either turn off swap (or dramatically reduce its amount *and* adjust > swappiness down) or I would launch firefox by a script that caps its > total virtual memory at 3G or something. It means firefox will crash > before it makes the computer unusable. KDE "System Activity" launched using Ctrl-ESC shows firefox using 150- 200 MB + about 100 MB shared. Does this include cache buffers given over to supporting it "under the covers?" But "top -o %MEM shows firefox at the top with 12.4 GB VIRT, 377 MB res, 90 MB shr. Who is right? How do I limit how much RAM (virtual or resident) firefox gets?
