From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 6 19:32:18 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B72F106567B for ; Fri, 6 Jan 2012 19:32:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from illoai@gmail.com) Received: from mail-ww0-f50.google.com (mail-ww0-f50.google.com [74.125.82.50]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB45C8FC15 for ; Fri, 6 Jan 2012 19:32:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wgbdr11 with SMTP id dr11so2051315wgb.31 for ; Fri, 06 Jan 2012 11:32:16 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=DfevlWTE7k+6Jzk3ffDMqj2csKwKCCyhY2xhBlYFpjw=; b=gXo5BJOaMu1ryVf1KsMxzBr7ZlO6wwdrhhCWJ96a4ay03l4vLU+ZXOHOuTQvgF0+Qb 5/42YAprMBtuClQEjT4rWtWPpD/rhQWLEV2hnfT98f9OFIlg04MzHVjSbzAg4Chknhab u4+G1TqX0wMJSHZUBaVQPw+eG446wvdVXF5Zo= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.180.88.97 with SMTP id bf1mr9233057wib.10.1325878336675; Fri, 06 Jan 2012 11:32:16 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.216.71.68 with HTTP; Fri, 6 Jan 2012 11:32:16 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20120104221833.61192fed@gumby.homeunix.com> References: <201201041259.q04CxBDW054176@fire.js.berklix.net> <20120104221833.61192fed@gumby.homeunix.com> Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2012 14:32:16 -0500 Message-ID: From: "illoai@gmail.com" To: RW Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Browser X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 06 Jan 2012 19:32:18 -0000 On 4 January 2012 17:18, RW 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. -- --