From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Wed Nov 11 02:51:12 2020 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.nyi.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.nyi.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 072952D2E4C for ; Wed, 11 Nov 2020 02:51:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pete@nomadlogic.org) Received: from mail.nomadlogic.org (mail.nomadlogic.org [174.136.98.114]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits) server-digest SHA256 client-signature RSA-PSS (2048 bits) client-digest SHA256) (Client CN "mail.nomadlogic.org", Issuer "Let's Encrypt Authority X3" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4CW8PV1Xxfz3kHK; Wed, 11 Nov 2020 02:51:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pete@nomadlogic.org) Received: from [192.168.1.160] (cpe-24-24-163-126.socal.res.rr.com [24.24.163.126]) by mail.nomadlogic.org (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTPSA id d804897c (TLSv1.3:TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256:NO); Wed, 11 Nov 2020 02:51:03 +0000 (UTC) Subject: Re: Firefox memory usage To: Steve Wills , Mario Lobo , "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" References: <20f8fdce-7867-7805-c3b9-2b49abb5b62a@FreeBSD.org> From: Pete Wright Message-ID: Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2020 18:50:57 -0800 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20f8fdce-7867-7805-c3b9-2b49abb5b62a@FreeBSD.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Language: en-US X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 4CW8PV1Xxfz3kHK X-Spamd-Bar: - Authentication-Results: mx1.freebsd.org; dkim=none; dmarc=none; spf=pass (mx1.freebsd.org: domain of pete@nomadlogic.org designates 174.136.98.114 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=pete@nomadlogic.org X-Spamd-Result: default: False [-1.79 / 15.00]; TO_DN_EQ_ADDR_SOME(0.00)[]; RCVD_VIA_SMTP_AUTH(0.00)[]; NEURAL_SPAM_SHORT(0.51)[0.509]; RCVD_TLS_ALL(0.00)[]; FROM_HAS_DN(0.00)[]; RCPT_COUNT_THREE(0.00)[3]; TO_DN_SOME(0.00)[]; MID_RHS_MATCH_FROM(0.00)[]; MIME_GOOD(-0.10)[text/plain]; R_SPF_ALLOW(-0.20)[+mx]; ARC_NA(0.00)[]; DMARC_NA(0.00)[nomadlogic.org]; SPAMHAUS_ZRD(0.00)[174.136.98.114:from:127.0.2.255]; TO_MATCH_ENVRCPT_SOME(0.00)[]; RBL_DBL_DONT_QUERY_IPS(0.00)[174.136.98.114:from]; NEURAL_HAM_LONG(-1.00)[-1.000]; NEURAL_HAM_MEDIUM(-1.00)[-1.000]; FROM_EQ_ENVFROM(0.00)[]; R_DKIM_NA(0.00)[]; MIME_TRACE(0.00)[0:+]; ASN(0.00)[asn:25795, ipnet:174.136.96.0/20, country:US]; RCVD_COUNT_TWO(0.00)[2]; MAILMAN_DEST(0.00)[freebsd-questions] X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.34 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2020 02:51:12 -0000 On 11/9/20 6:17 AM, Steve Wills wrote: > I find something along the lines of: > > limits -m 8g -v 8g firefox > > helps a lot. thanks for your input here Steve, i set this today on my primary workstation and have observed noticiably better performance of firefox as a result.  i'm going to also dog-food this on my lower powered laptop tonight.  i wonder if there is a good place to store this koan of knowledge, not sure it'd be appropriate for a pkg message but maybe in the tuning wiki? -pete -- Pete Wright pete@nomadlogic.org @nomadlogicLA