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Date:      Wed, 11 Nov 2020 13:35:57 -0300
From:      Mario Lobo <lobo@bsd.com.br>
To:        "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Firefox memory usage
Message-ID:  <CA%2ByoEx-umssZ_WNWbhW9H2Zjm4BVYmtQVRV%2Bon6U2yCruk2tNA@mail.gmail.com>
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On Tue, Nov 10, 2020 at 11:51 PM Pete Wright <pete@nomadlogic.org> wrote:

>
>
> 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
>
>
WOW! +1 here.

This improves firefox A LOT!

Thanks for that!
-- 
Mario Lobo
http://www.mallavoodoo.com.br
FreeBSD since version 2.2.8 [not Pro-Audio.... YET!!]



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