[ale] take a trip through your process list - hot pc

[Wolf Halton]

16GB RAM on win7 and 25 tabs open.firefox is a ramhog. I am leaning toward
chrome. need to test head to head. 4GB RAM and ubuntu studio, firefox still
a ramhog. Firefox shockwave/ flash bot working. Chrome on same machine and
flash works.
If chrome had sync like firefox, I would have switched over already.

Wolf

Wolf Halton
http://sourcefreedom.com
Apache develope
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 11:49 PM, Ron Frazier (ALE) <
> atllinuxenthinfo at techstarship.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I just picked up my laptop running Windows 7 and Firefox plus about 70
>> open tabs.  This applies to Linux too.  The bottom of the unit was so hot
>> that it was uncomfortable to touch.  The fan was running furiously.  The
>> first thing I thought was ventilation.  The unit had been sitting on some
>> loose papers, so that might have had an effect.  I have speedfan running to
>> monitor temperature.  It's norm is 62 C and it was up to 75 C.  I removed
>> all the loose papers.  Then, I looked at the cpu meter.  It was pegged at
>> around 70%, and Firefox was the main culprit.  Probably flash.  I closed
>> Firefox.  The cpu was still sitting around 15 % with nothing happening.  I
>> loaded msconfig to see what was starting up.  On Linux, you could use top,
>> htop, or system monitor.  However, those only tell you what's running, not
>> what's in the startup sequence, as far as I know.  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.  I don't think anything is malicious, but, they're sitting
>> there using cpu time and electricity and creating heat.  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.  Be careful though.  You can break
>> critical parts of your system, like updates, or sound, or your touchpad.  I
>> rebooted and my idle cpu usage dropped to 1 % - 2 %.  Now that's more like
>> it.
>>
>> So, the moral of the story is that it pays to look at your process list
>> occasionally and trim the fat.  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.  I did some reading in the past that
>> indicated flash could bring a mobile device's battery to its knees.
>>
>> Sincerely,
>>
>> Ron
>>
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>> mailing lists and such.  I don't always see new email messages very
>> quickly.)
>>
>> Ron Frazier
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