Re: Performance of my computer

2023-10-31 Thread piorunz
On 31/10/2023 12:10, Michael Kjörling wrote: Which is why I specifically asked OP to show the output of those while doing something where OP felt that the computer was slow,_and_ reiterated that exact point in my response which you quoted from. Dear Michael, It was not my intention to offend y

Re: Performance of my computer

2023-10-31 Thread Michael Kjörling
On 31 Oct 2023 00:08 +, from pior...@gmx.com (piorunz): > CPU is idling and there is nothing to do, I don't know why you want to > investigate normal CPU behaviour. This is absolutely normal. Going down > all the way to 0.80 GHz is actually great, that is definitely conserving > power. Which i

Re: Performance of my computer

2023-10-31 Thread Max Nikulin
On 31/10/2023 01:57, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Mon, Oct 30, 2023 at 12:45:38PM -0600, William Torrez Corea wrote: I haven't partitioned my hard disk. I have Toshiba L200 Laptop PC Hard drive 1 TB, 5400 rpm, 128 MB/8MB buffer That doesn't sound right. 128 MB of RAM? It is buffer size of the h

Re: Performance of my computer

2023-10-30 Thread Mike Castle
On Mon, Oct 30, 2023 at 5:14 PM Van Snyder wrote: > On Mon, 2023-10-30 at 19:40 +, piorunz wrote: > On 30/10/2023 18:56, Van Snyder wrote: > Firefox, in every version I've used so far, appears to have memory > > leaks. If I kill it, not by clicking its little "X" or Alt-F4, but with > > "kill

kill -9 firefox (Re: Performance of my computer)

2023-10-30 Thread Max Nikulin
On 31/10/2023 01:56, Van Snyder wrote: Firefox, in every version I've used so far, appears to have memory leaks. If I kill it, not by clicking its little "X" or Alt-F4, but with "kill -9", so that it reopens everything when I restart it, my memory usage immediately drops by 75%. Then it creeps

Re: Performance of my computer

2023-10-30 Thread Stefan Monnier
> Then why does it use 1/3 as much memory to display the same pages and > tabs when I kill it and restart it? That's a symptom of memory leakage. Not necessarily, no. It may consciously decide to hold on memory that was used in the past in order to avoid having to re-allocate and re-initialize it

Re: Performance of my computer

2023-10-30 Thread John Hasler
Piotr writes: > No, it's just buffering everything it can to satisfy hunger for speed, > set by Chrome and other competitors. Launch Chrome on your computer, > you will experience similar behaviour, memory hogging. It's not a > leak, it's new modern "design" for the browsers. I believe you can adj

Re: Performance of my computer

2023-10-30 Thread piorunz
On 30/10/2023 19:49, Michael Kjörling wrote: On 30 Oct 2023 13:36 -0600, from willitc9...@gmail.com (William Torrez Corea): model name : Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4500U CPU @ 1.80GHz cpu MHz : 798.205 cpu MHz : 798.173 cpu MHz : 798.250 cpu MHz : 798.223 There's something. You have a 4 x 1.8 GHz C

Re: Performance of my computer

2023-10-30 Thread piorunz
On 30/10/2023 22:19, Van Snyder wrote: Then why does it use 1/3 as much memory to display the same pages and tabs when I kill it and restart it? That's a symptom of memory leakage. No, it's just buffering everything it can to satisfy hunger for speed, set by Chrome and other competitors. Launch

Re: Performance of my computer

2023-10-30 Thread David Christensen
On 10/30/23 12:04, David Christensen wrote: On 10/30/23 11:45, William Torrez Corea wrote: How can improve the performance of my computer? I have problems when I have a lot of tabs opened in my browser, i am using the libreoffice or playing on Steam. The system blew up. My browser: Firefox B

Re: Performance of my computer

2023-10-30 Thread Dan Purgert
On Oct 30, 2023, Van Snyder wrote: > On Mon, 2023-10-30 at 19:40 +, piorunz wrote: > > On 30/10/2023 18:56, Van Snyder wrote: > > > Firefox, in every version I've used so far, appears to have > > > memoryleaks. If I kill it, not by clicking its little "X" or Alt- > > > F4, but with"kill -9", so

Re: Performance of my computer

2023-10-30 Thread Van Snyder
On Mon, 2023-10-30 at 19:40 +, piorunz wrote: > On 30/10/2023 18:56, Van Snyder wrote: > > Firefox, in every version I've used so far, appears to have > > memoryleaks. If I kill it, not by clicking its little "X" or Alt- > > F4, but with"kill -9", so that it reopens everything when I restart >

Re: Performance of my computer

2023-10-30 Thread Jeffrey Walton
> On Mon, Oct 30, 2023 at 12:45:38PM -0600, William Torrez Corea wrote: > > I have problems when I have a lot of tabs opened in my browser, i am using > > the libreoffice or playing on Steam. The system blew up. > > ... > > My browser: Firefox Browser 115.4.0esr (64 bit) > > My system: Linux 5.10.0

Re: Performance of my computer

2023-10-30 Thread Michael Kjörling
On 30 Oct 2023 13:36 -0600, from willitc9...@gmail.com (William Torrez Corea): > model name : Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4500U CPU @ 1.80GHz > > cpu MHz : 798.205 > cpu MHz : 798.173 > cpu MHz : 798.250 > cpu MHz : 798.223 There's something. You have a 4 x 1.8 GHz CPU but it's actually running at 800 M

Re: Performance of my computer

2023-10-30 Thread piorunz
On 30/10/2023 18:56, Van Snyder wrote: Firefox, in every version I've used so far, appears to have memory leaks. If I kill it, not by clicking its little "X" or Alt-F4, but with "kill -9", so that it reopens everything when I restart it, my memory usage immediately drops by 75%. Then it creeps ba

Re: Performance of my computer

2023-10-30 Thread piorunz
On 30/10/2023 19:36, William Torrez Corea wrote: total        used        free      shared  buff/cache   available Mem:           7.7Gi       4.3Gi       2.6Gi       373Mi       830Mi   2.7Gi Swap:          8.8Gi       1.4Gi       7.4Gi Last step: Run command: sudo inxi -m And paste the

Re: Performance of my computer

2023-10-30 Thread Michael Kjörling
On 30 Oct 2023 12:04 -0700, from dpchr...@holgerdanske.com (David Christensen): > # cat /etc/debian_version ; uname -a The kernel and Firefox version specified in the original question match current Bullseye, so that seems a likely guess. -- Michael Kjörling 🔗 https://michael

Re: Performance of my computer

2023-10-30 Thread Michael Kjörling
On 30 Oct 2023 12:45 -0600, from willitc9...@gmail.com (William Torrez Corea): > I have problems when I have a lot of tabs opened in my browser, i am using > the libreoffice or playing on Steam. The system blew up. I'm fairly certain that when you say that "the system blew up", you do not mean tha

Re: Performance of my computer

2023-10-30 Thread David Christensen
On 10/30/23 11:45, William Torrez Corea wrote: How can improve the performance of my computer? I have problems when I have a lot of tabs opened in my browser, i am using the libreoffice or playing on Steam. The system blew up. My browser: Firefox Browser 115.4.0esr (64 bit) My system: Linux 5.1

Re: Performance of my computer

2023-10-30 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Mon, Oct 30, 2023 at 12:45:38PM -0600, William Torrez Corea wrote: > I have problems when I have a lot of tabs opened in my browser, i am using > the libreoffice or playing on Steam. The system blew up. Sounds like you want more memory. > My browser: Firefox Browser 115.4.0esr (64 bit) > My sy

Re: Performance of my computer

2023-10-30 Thread Van Snyder
On Mon, 2023-10-30 at 12:45 -0600, William Torrez Corea wrote: > How can improve the performance of my computer? > > > I have problems when I have a lot of tabs opened in my browser, i am > using the libreoffice or playing on Steam. The system blew up. > > My browser: Firefox Browser 115.4.0esr