Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2012 14:32:16 -0500 From: "illoai@gmail.com" <illoai@gmail.com> To: RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Browser Message-ID: <CAHHBGkqMTL3SJZa-eAiRf1kKKJAkbEPVW-ZW9z7vag4%2BNWsUFw@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20120104221833.61192fed@gumby.homeunix.com> References: <CAHsiZG-op0MO79qaWG2gRLYLeaTKcip8iabQ%2B0AYQVK7iDZ5pg@mail.gmail.com> <201201041259.q04CxBDW054176@fire.js.berklix.net> <CAHHBGkoxn0ic2T2E8HrFV9nEKoF=KByKh0KR8qS0X9Rg58j92g@mail.gmail.com> <20120104221833.61192fed@gumby.homeunix.com>
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On 4 January 2012 17:18, RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com> wrote: > On Wed, 4 Jan 2012 12:56:38 -0500 > illoai@gmail.com wrote: > > >> If you have a few hours, lots of RAM, & you'd like to stress- >> test your system: >> cd /usr/ports/www/chromium && make install > > > Unless things have changed radically that sounds like a bit of an > exaggeration. Until about 9 months ago I was building it on a 7 year > old single core athlon in 1.5GB with the work-directory on tmpfs. It > was still perfectly usable as a desktop. I suppose it's relative. I compile it on a dual-core while doing other stuff & everything goes fine, it just seems to take a rather long time (comparable to [libre|open]office). I'll give it that chromium (8 tabs open) seems to use far less CPU than opera (6 tabs open) & less than 1/4 the memory of opera, as well. -- --
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