My normal desktop is Chrome with 20-50 tabs open, on this machine it's KDE 4 so I had to switch to Open Office as Office Libre was super unstable. I often have 7 to 10 documents open at same time as those Chrome tabs, plus a Kate session with 3-10 docs in the Kate session plus misc apps such as Dolphin, Krusader, Kconvert, Audacity, perhaps a few FF tabs and so on. I do that on 4 gigs of ram and have for years.
On the first machine machine I put KDE 5 on, it only has 2 gigs of ram and 2 gig swap partition. It's sort of reflex for me to create swap partition same size as ram. In hindsight I probably should have gone with a 4 gig swap partition. With Akondi running it will even if I'm doing nothing on that machine I will hear it start churning several hours after I boot it. If I start putting a load on it then it craters rather quickly. That's the thing. I am not using ANY Akondi agents. I use webmail clients for email, my phone is my contact manager, I never use Knotes or any other Akondi enabled apps. Since I disabled Akondi I have no problem having several Office Libre documents open at the same time as a dozen Chrome or FF tabs including several that use Flash, as well as 2 to 5 PDF files open, Clemintine, perhaps a Krusader or a few Dolphin windows and a Konsole session. I always have a Konsole window open. First thing I do when I reboot. Since disabling Akondi the only time I reboot is normal Kernel update reboots. Prior that I might get a day or two before having to reboot, usually a cold boot using the power button because it's churning so bad I can't even get to a console window or SSH in to bring the machine down gracefully. On this machine SSh server is running and I took down some stuff like Samba and MySQL and I had Barrios installed but it was too heavy on resources for my liking on this machine so I removed it. My original intent with this machine was to essentially a jukebox and once I'm done figuring out if I can continue using KDE or am going to be forced to switched to XFCE I will be building a few newer machines and this will go back to being primarily a jukebox. My old Mac died however and I had to offload what I normally do on the Mac to this 2 gig machine and with Akondi disabled it's a little slow despite being a 7 year old Emachine that was low end even 7 years ago, but gets the job done. I had 1.5 gigs of Ram consumed before I opened ANYTHING with Akondi running. It essentially turned a 2 gig machine into a half gig machine. I'll agree with you on FF being more memory intensive. In fact is has a rather large memory leak somewhere, especially when dealing with Flash websites. Which is the primary reason I switched to Chrome as primary browser about 5 years ago. I still use FF for plugins that Chrome doesn't have such as downloading videos, for secondary email accounts, things like that. I don't usually leave it continuously running like I do Chrome which stays up from about 10 seconds after I reboot until I reboot again or after 2 or 3 months I might kill it and restart it to recover memory lost to memory leaks if a kernel update hasn't forced me to reboot in a few months. All my machines run 24/7. On Sat, Sep 1, 2018 at 11:56 AM René J.V. Bertin <rjvber...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Saturday September 01 2018 10:34:02 Draciron Smith wrote: > > > The difference is night and day for me. I'll get an app open, maybe a > > music player, maybe a web browser. Open a 2nd app and the machine starts > > churning. If I don't head strait for a konsole window and kill Akondi > > processes I will wind up mashing the power button as it locks up so hard > I > > Something is definitely wrong there. What Akonadi agents are or were you > using that blocked the machine to such an extent? It doesn't make sense > that they would consume more resources than FF or Chrome running a > full-blown session (FF is worse in terms of RAM usage than Chrome these > days)... > I'm tempted to ask if you have a sufficiently large swap partition but you > must because otherwise I don't see how one could run FF/Chrome plus > LibreOffice with a bunch of documents open. > >
