On Sat, 16 Mar 2019 08:52:11 -0700, NFN Smith <[email protected]> in mozilla.support.seamonkey wrote:
>A couple of additional questions come to mind: > >- How much RAM do you have in your system, and how many other things do >you have open? If you're operating on 4 GB, then Seamonkey is going to >be taking most of that, especially with Facebook. If you have other >things open, then you're likely hitting memory issues, and where your >computer is doing serious amounts of swapping out to your hard drive. >If you're doing swapping, a hard disk is much slower than RAM, and the >result is going to be noticeable slowness. > >- When is the last time you cleared your browser cache? Sometimes that >can help quite a bit, especially with stalled pages. Cache is something >that also dates back to dial-up era, when it made sense to try to >minimize the volume of traffic going over the wire, especially for >content that had already been downloaded. > >In modern usage, cache is much less important, partly because of the >speed of connections, but also because of content that's being >constantly updated, and where there's less content that can be re-used >from the cache. In my own usage, I find no noticeable performance loss >from running a much smaller cache than the default, nor of regular cache >flushes. And for hung processes, clearing the cache and reloading the >entire page can make a real difference. > >Although I'm not advocating for it, I do know that I've seen people note >that they set browser caches to 0. For you, you might try experimenting >with a smaller cache. > >- You might also want to consider what you might accomplish with >NoScript. That's not necessarily a trivial thing to do, because it >takes tinkering to figure out what scripting you want running (and in >fact, is essential) and where blocking scripting simply mutes stuff that >doesn't need to be running, at least for your usage. With Facebook, >there's a lot of scripting that they're doing with data collection and >analysis, and it may be that blocking some of that may cut down on the >demand for resources. To answer the questions: 1. I have 6 gig of RAM 2. current about:cache reports: memory Number of entries: 8 Maximum storage size: 200000 KiB Storage in use: 122 KiB Storage disk location: none, only stored in memory List Cache Entries disk Number of entries: 1550 Maximum storage size: 51200 KiB Storage in use: 46501 KiB Storage disk location: C:\Users\xxxxxx\AppData\Local\Mozilla\SeaMonkey\Profiles\xxxxxxxxdefault\cache2 List Cache Entries appcache Number of entries: 69 Maximum storage size: 512000 KiB Storage in use: 6000 KiB ~~~~~~ In other words, cache is "hardly there at all". Certain identifiable information changed to "x" strings jim _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
