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flyingchap
Hi All – am running Antix 19 last year or so on a mid-life Acer Aspire – seeing of late ENORMOUS amounts of memory domination by either Chromium or Chrome – many many processes all demanding HUGE amounts of VM (~ 100GBytes) with just a few innocent / quiet tabs open.
As a result monstrously slow with any browser activity at all. Other apps broadly fine.
Any ideas ?
sybok
Hi, modern browsers consume a huge amount of (RAM+CPU) resources.
That’s a fact felt strongly on older HW.
This was discussed in the forum many times, please do search it for tips/tricks how to reduce the resource usage.To briefly summarise (some of) the tips/tricks:
1) Block ads and some scripts in the web-pages (to the extent that does not break these web-pages) using antiX built-in advert blocker and/or dedicated add-ons.
2) Consider using “lighter” browsers (in a bit of extreme approach, you may combine “modern browsers” with text-based browsers such as lynx, elinks etc.).
3) Run resource-hungry applications with lower resource-access priority ‘/usr/bin/nice [-n <niceness>] <application>’ (see manual page of nice ‘man nice’).PPC
Any ideas ?
Yes. You seem to be noticing the same fact that sybok stated in the previous post: modern browsers use large chunks of the system resources. The more resources are available, the more they are possibly used.
If you like chrome based browsers, you can try “ungoogled chromium” – there are plenty of posts about it here in the forum – and the name of the browser is self descriptive. It may help keep your usage of system resources a bit lower.P.
olsztyn
ENORMOUS amounts of memory domination by either Chromium or Chrome – many many processes all demanding HUGE amounts of VM (~ 100GBytes) with just a few innocent / quiet tabs open.
I do not know what this VM-Size column actually means in LX Task Manager, but in my case some of such processes show 32GB, while using Chrome with three tabs open and some browsing:
– The total memory use is 445M out of 3794
– Total memory installed is 4Gb
– I am not using Swap at all
– At the moment running antiX 22 SID, Runit, elogind-free. But the same I notice with just production antiX runit elogind-free, whether 21 or 22.
– I am running antiX Live with no persistence to be precise.After heavy browsing the total memory use can go up and even exceed 1Gb total memory but in my case I have not seen any real adverse impact in my setup. So VM-Size might be in my use of antiX just a theoretical value, showing limits of virtual memory addressing space, but never coming close to it in actual use.
Just my interpretation. Looking forward to a more scientific explanation…- This reply was modified 4 months, 2 weeks ago by olsztyn.
Live antiX Boot Options (Previously posted by Xecure):
https://antixlinuxfan.miraheze.org/wiki/Table_of_antiX_Boot_Parameterssybok
I see I did not grasp the whole problem when replying earlier… (or I got mixed it up now).
What about cache?
I know that @ModdIt sometimes recommended to clear cache as it could sometimes accumulate swiftly.
Also, are your VMs’ drives of fixed-size or variable?
Speculation: if fixed drive and browser cache is increasing, then VirtualBox (?) may try to add to VM’s drive in advance to avoid running out of disk-space.Xunzi_23
The screenshots show nothng unusual for chrome chromium memory usage.
And no directly attributable 100s of GB.
Running in a VM may distort the true extent of both memory usage and system load
due to browser or be causing confusion.pls run with a live stick and compare. Fresh downloaed, sha256 sum check must be OK.
Do a full update and install nothing from other sources.It will also allow you to run a clean system. Yours might not be.
Exception if you wish to use ungoogled chromium. Should you do so install ublock.
Do you use the antiX ad blocking hosts list to reduce rubbish in cache.
Get latest ungoogled, available debian builds are outdated.
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