My current desktop is ram limited and I run firefox with a zillion tabs in a million windows. It will eat up the ram then happily punt out to swap. Page not touched in 3 hours may take 2 secs to reload but that's OK with me.<br>
<br>Get's fun when something crashes firefox and it reload all the windows and tabs :-) First time I've been on a desktop class system instead of a server class system as a desktop.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 11:49 PM, Ron Frazier (ALE) <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:atllinuxenthinfo@techstarship.com" target="_blank">atllinuxenthinfo@techstarship.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Hi all,<br>
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I just picked up my laptop running Windows 7 and Firefox plus about 70 open tabs. Â This applies to Linux too. Â The bottom of the unit was so hot that it was uncomfortable to touch. Â The fan was running furiously. Â The first thing I thought was ventilation. Â The unit had been sitting on some loose papers, so that might have had an effect. Â I have speedfan running to monitor temperature. Â It's norm is 62 C and it was up to 75 C. Â I removed all the loose papers. Â Then, I looked at the cpu meter. Â It was pegged at around 70%, and Firefox was the main culprit. Â Probably flash. Â I closed Firefox. Â The cpu was still sitting around 15 % with nothing happening. Â I loaded msconfig to see what was starting up. Â On Linux, you could use top, htop, or system monitor. Â However, those only tell you what's running, not what's in the startup sequence, as far as I know. Â I found a number of things in the startup sequence that I didn't want there, like a Citrix app for the once in a year time that my wife uses my computer, adobe reader quickstart, something related to cyberlink dvd programs, a daemon for updating the firmware in my Sansa mp3 player (which I've done exactly once and will probably never repeat), and several items from the manufacturer of the pc, etc. Â I don't think anything is malicious, but, they're sitting there using cpu time and electricity and creating heat. Â I hid all the microsoft stuff in the list, then unchecked all the processes AND SERVICES that I didn't think need to be starting. Â Be careful though. Â You can break critical parts of your system, like updates, or sound, or your touchpad. Â I rebooted and my idle cpu usage dropped to 1 % - 2 %. Â Now that's more like it.<br>
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So, the moral of the story is that it pays to look at your process list occasionally and trim the fat. Â The other moral is that it pays to keep one eye on Firefox, especially if you have lots of tabs and especially if you have flash or html 5 animation. Â I did some reading in the past that indicated flash could bring a mobile device's battery to its knees.<br>
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Sincerely,<br>
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Ron<br>
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