So the strange thing is (and this could be completely normal) that as I am watching the process Manager, so I have 3 youtube pages open but no videos playing, and without switching to any other tab, only the process Manager tab. The cpu keeps spiking from .25% to over 100% on different youtube processes. Not sure why it would need to do that on an idle tab.
On Mon, Jan 13, 2025 at 7:10 PM David Wright <deb...@lionunicorn.co.uk> wrote: > On Tue 14 Jan 2025 at 00:49:49 (+0800), Bret Busby wrote: > > > I generally work on being able to open and keep open, a Firefox > > window, for each GB of RAM, which seems to work most of the time, with > > one or more Windows, having multiple youtube tabs open. > > > > at present, on a system with 128GB RAM, I have 121 Firefox > > windows,and, 56 LibreWolf windows, open. neofetch shows the system has > > (at present) been up about 3 1/2days (I have been having electricity > > supply problems, otherwise, the uptime could have been longer. > > Running bullseye in 8GB (½GB swap is unused), FF has 124 tabs listed. > However, only about a dozen are active (as listed by ps and topmem). > So that's really the statistic to report. All the rest of the tabs > have yet to be visited since FF was started. > > I restart FF every morning, and it restores all the tabs from the > previous session. Now, were I to Ctrl-PageUp my way across all > 124 tabs, the machine would grind to snail's pace of swapping. > So I don't. > > The tabs are localised: there are clumps related to different > problems, so stuff I last looked at, say, a fortnight ago will be > many tabs to the left of where I'm working now. I use the ▽ at the > top-right to navigate around, so as to skip over intervening tabs > without waking them from their dormant state. Every few months maybe, > I have a killing spree, killing off many clumps, though the BBC > schedules at the extreme left, for example, have been there for years. > > I've also run a second FF today, as a different user, just to > download a couple of bank statements. That browser will never > usually have more than two or three tabs, all on one site, and > I close them all before I quit that FF. > > That said, I've not noticed any slowdown recently. The first instance > is not quick starting up, but that one generally has to compete with > the daily housekeeping that occurs after I boot up. Subsequent > instances are quick. > > Cheers, > David. > >
