Re: 4GB RAM too little for Firefox?

Hi Jan, "Jan Betlach" wrote: > > Richard, > > have you increased the shared memory limits and kern parameters in the > sysctl.conf for more relaxed desktop usage? > > Jan No I have not and I never heard of it. Here is the output of `sysctl kern.shminfo`: kern.shminfo.shmmax=33554432 kern.shmi

Re: 4GB RAM too little for Firefox?

Otto Moerbeek wrote: > On Sat, Jul 06, 2019 at 09:32:22AM +0200, maillists.rul...@mailbox.org wrote: > > > Otto Moerbeek wrote: > > > You still did not tell which platform you are running. It matters. > > > > > > -Otto > > I'm using a ThinkPad T450 (i5-5300U, SSD, FullHD Display for which 0.5

Re: 4GB RAM too little for Firefox?

Otto Moerbeek wrote: > You still did not tell which platform you are running. It matters. > > -Otto I'm using a ThinkPad T450 (i5-5300U, SSD, FullHD Display for which 0.5G of the RAM are used by the graphics card). Im running OpenBSD 6.5 and use full disk encryption (don't know if this matt

Re: 4GB RAM too little for Firefox?

> OpenBSD derives some security by confining processes and web browsing > with firefox is notorious for memory leaks. > > If you mobo supports it, more ram will also improve performance with > firefox and other memory intensive tasks. Firefox is pretty much my only memory intensive task. Thanks for

Re: 4GB RAM too little for Firefox?

> OpenBSD derives some security by confining processes and web browsing > with firefox is notorious for memory leaks. > > If you mobo supports it, more ram will also improve performance with > firefox and other memory intensive tasks. Firefox is pretty much my only memory intensive task. Thanks fo

Re: Putting fifos in subshells into the background

Philip Guenther wrote: > On Wed, Jun 12, 2019 at 12:54 AM Richard Ulmer > wrote: > > > while making the Kakoune editor work on OpenBSD, I encountered some > > strange behaviour [1]. This little script doesn't work with the OpenBSD > > sh, but works at least with dash, bash and zsh: > > > > mkfif