On Sat, Aug 23, 2014 at 11:16 AM, Nick Holland <n...@holland-consulting.net> wrote:
> On 08/23/14 10:30, Gregory Edigarov wrote: > > Hello Everybody. > > > > Before anything I want to say big thanks to the developers of OpenBSD, > > for maintaining it. After some ~10 years of being the loyal OpenBSD > > user, I never had any problem with OpenBSD itself, besides may be 2 or > > three times. > > It is impressive. Every other system I use gives problems from time to > > time, so I am thanking you, guys, every time I type a command. > > > > Now onto the bitter part. For some reason, since, may be, AFAIR 5.2 > > times, I do not see any browser that is working flawlessly under our > > loved system. > > Everything is happened on the same set of sites I use routinely everyday. > > > > I tried: > > Firefox - bad, bad, bad. It fails 1000 times a day. > > On your machine, firefox couldn't be restarted 1000 times a day. > (ok, not sure where my sense if irony is today...) > ... > > > dmesg follows: > > OpenBSD 5.6-current (GENERIC.MP) #340: Fri Aug 22 15:06:09 MDT 2014 > > dera...@amd64.openbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/amd64/compile/GENERIC.MP > > real mem = 1568260096 (1495MB) > > avail mem = 1517772800 (1447MB) > ... > > cpu0 at mainbus0: apid 0 (boot processor) > > cpu0: Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU G530 @ 2.40GHz, 2394.94 MHz > > ok, how do I put this nicely... > To run a modern browser, you need a modern computer. 1.5GB RAM and a > celeron processor doesn't cut it. > NOW, that doesn't cause CRASHES, but when you fix the crashes by > cranking up your login.conf specs, you will be so far into swap you will > wish your browser crashed. > > Modern browsers leak memory like everyone has 16GB and a quad-core proc, > AND restarts their browser several times a day. Look at those same > browsers on Windows (their target market), you see the same thing. The > difference is, OpenBSD kicks out programs that exceed predefined limits, > that's what you are most likely seeing. > > But most likely, login.conf will fix your crash problem, as I use > firefox, Chromium and Thunderbird on my amd64 system (three-core, 4G > RAM), and usually get a week or two uptime between shutdowns (because of > hitting RAM limits). > > Nick. > +1 That is your problem...memory You will definitely see better performance with more memory. I use Pentium G2020 with 8GB of memory and the performance is good for browsing/occasional video with daily restart. Tweak the follwoing variables in /etc/login.conf datasize-max === 3G datasize-cur === 2G
