Hi,
My desktop isn't state of the art but it's a quad core AMD64 so not too bad. It is by current standards short of RAM (2x2GB) but until recently has performed OK. Now it goes very slow after a little while on Firefox, especially if I play YouTube video.
Last night I tried Ghostery (fork of Firefox with ghostery plug-in built-in plus some other security stuff) and it seemed better. So today I played the same vid in both at the same time and ran ps ux to see what was happening.
Firefox
phil 7854 46.2 8.5 3554956 345568 ? Sl 10:30 1:14 /usr/lib/firefox/firefox phil 7905 0.0 0.7 212184 28524 ? Sl 10:30 0:00 /usr/lib/firefox/firefox-bin -contentproc -parentBuildI phil 7934 1.4 2.2 2476728 93236 ? Sl 10:30 0:02 /usr/lib/firefox/firefox-bin -contentproc -childID 1 -i phil 7982 18.4 7.1 15488220 288656 ? Sl 10:30 0:27 /usr/lib/firefox/firefox-bin -contentproc -childID 2 -i phil 8037 30.0 8.9 3006520 364668 ? Sl 10:30 0:43 /usr/lib/firefox/firefox-bin -contentproc -childID 3 -i phil 8077 0.0 1.2 2403824 51920 ? Sl 10:30 0:00 /usr/lib/firefox/firefox-bin -contentproc -childID 5 -i phil 8218 0.1 1.2 2396472 51924 ? Sl 10:30 0:00 /usr/lib/firefox/firefox-bin -contentproc -childID 6 -i phil 8234 12.1 1.4 363900 58176 ? Sl 10:30 0:14 /usr/lib/firefox/firefox-bin -contentproc -parentBuildI phil 8265 0.0 1.2 2396476 50232 ? Sl 10:30 0:00 /usr/lib/firefox/firefox-bin -contentproc -childID 7 -i
Ghostery
phil 5849 0.0 7.6 9023124 311408 ? Sl Apr17 0:28 /home/phil/Downloads/Ghostery/Ghostery -contentproc -ch phil 5923 0.6 11.9 3019332 486688 ? Sl Apr17 5:42 /home/phil/Downloads/Ghostery/Ghostery -contentproc -ch phil 6076 0.0 0.6 2383328 24704 ? Sl Apr17 0:00 /home/phil/Downloads/Ghostery/Ghostery -contentproc -ch phil 6121 0.0 0.6 2383332 24596 ? Sl Apr17 0:00 /home/phil/Downloads/Ghostery/Ghostery -contentproc -ch phil 6146 0.3 1.1 264824 47156 ? Sl Apr17 3:27 /home/phil/Downloads/Ghostery/Ghostery -contentproc -pa phil 6184 0.0 0.6 2383328 24496 ? Sl Apr17 0:00 /home/phil/Downloads/Ghostery/Ghostery -contentproc -ch
If you're not familiar the 3rd col shows % of CPU being used and the 4th is % of RAM.
As you can see FF opens a lot more processes and three of them are serious resource hogs. Anyone else found this? Guess I'll just use ghostery all the time though it doesn't have all the FF plugins I use. But maybe that's the issue?
On Mon, Apr 18, 2022 at 10:44:02AM +0100, Phil Thane wrote:
If you're not familiar the 3rd col shows % of CPU being used and the 4th is % of RAM.
As you can see FF opens a lot more processes and three of them are serious resource hogs. Anyone else found this? Guess I'll just use ghostery all the time though it doesn't have all the FF plugins I use. But maybe that's the issue?
The processes are used for security reasons to isolate each site/tab from each other so they don't share memory space.
Have you tried just adding ghostery to normal firefox? what the likely explanation is that all the javascript which is blocked by ghostery isn't getting loaded which can eat memory. It's probably not that one is more of a resource hog than the other, it's just the one where ghostery is enabled is doing less overall.
As an aside, I would look at getting some more RAM if possible, 4GB isn't a lot these days! If it's something unusual and expensive to get hold of then maybe ask on here, I've got sticks of RAM kicking about that I no longer need but can't be bothered to test and sell either, sometimes as I no longer have suitable machines to test it in.
Adam --
I've had the Ghostery plugin on FF for ages. Not changed anything else either apart from routine updates.
I've installed the same plugins on Ghostery, except Ghostery itself of course, and it still performs better that FF. So I've made it default browser but still keep FF for a while in case I find something needs it.
As for buying RAM. It's DDR3 PC133. Standard desktop stuff but if I have spare cash I'd rather spend it on boat stuff! Anyone has any going cheap, do let me know.
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On 18/04/2022 13:52, Adam Bower wrote:
On Mon, Apr 18, 2022 at 10:44:02AM +0100, Phil Thane wrote:
If you're not familiar the 3rd col shows % of CPU being used and the 4th is % of RAM.
As you can see FF opens a lot more processes and three of them are serious resource hogs. Anyone else found this? Guess I'll just use ghostery all the time though it doesn't have all the FF plugins I use. But maybe that's the issue?
The processes are used for security reasons to isolate each site/tab from each other so they don't share memory space.
Have you tried just adding ghostery to normal firefox? what the likely explanation is that all the javascript which is blocked by ghostery isn't getting loaded which can eat memory. It's probably not that one is more of a resource hog than the other, it's just the one where ghostery is enabled is doing less overall.
As an aside, I would look at getting some more RAM if possible, 4GB isn't a lot these days! If it's something unusual and expensive to get hold of then maybe ask on here, I've got sticks of RAM kicking about that I no longer need but can't be bothered to test and sell either, sometimes as I no longer have suitable machines to test it in.
Adam
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