Date: Sun, 26 Jul 2020 07:46:55 +0100 From: Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org> To: Aryeh Friedman <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com> Cc: Valeri Galtsev <galtsev@kicp.uchicago.edu>, FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Ask stupid questions and you'll get a stupid answers, was: Technological advantages over Linux Message-ID: <20200726074655.b0036a0f90508156205376f9@sohara.org> In-Reply-To: <CAGBxaX=SR_sm7Pa5KXmTT=P6SCpvuyg9GhVa9WkxdPJM_HUBrg@mail.gmail.com> References: <20200214204838.360c8f624397c659946bd764@sohara.org> <20200215063818.GE1482@admin.sibptus.ru> <20200215083359.367d8a3e9ddb4942df67d5b5@sohara.org> <58202623-bbf7-eda0-5cb5-fb4749e91e20@watters.ws> <CAEJNuHxbFSPBB7keSrBufpg=RsgQ8EPK_fvzt8XBROLNKyN_sw@mail.gmail.com> <6318251A-973A-4DEC-9271-12333EB11F7B@kicp.uchicago.edu> <CAEJNuHxC7i%2Bq7cq65=my6mJZDdiK4gpQsKjMU1nvsm=Ri4On%2Bg@mail.gmail.com> <ce61b5e9-b71c-e5b7-c64d-f79884c87435@watters.ws> <20200725152412.GJ92589@admin.sibptus.ru> <CAGBxaX=Ktr-pqtT8FU37ajkYonVLYT_WhSenn23Tj5b=i0d-8g@mail.gmail.com> <20200725162403.GA4721@admin.sibptus.ru> <CAGBxaXmBZcCWqAZFR9OSyRGrqGFU%2BqCAZ8CfOi=0oXAmf-2=tA@mail.gmail.com> <20200725182554.deffc63058a7c9f6d343ef06@sohara.org> <04df312d-9b2b-1873-2117-79a49e089bd9@kicp.uchicago.edu> <CAGBxaX=SR_sm7Pa5KXmTT=P6SCpvuyg9GhVa9WkxdPJM_HUBrg@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sat, 25 Jul 2020 22:46:23 -0400 Aryeh Friedman <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com> wrote: > The only thing I can think of is there is a HTML 5 game that I > often leave open all the time That is probably causing Firefox to eat huge amounts of memory starving everything else and making the system prone to swapping. Try closing that window, restarting Firefox and then seeing how well your machine works. > So the only possible conclusion I can draw > is it is X being extremely screwy on FreeBSD due to all the linux hacks in > it (this despite X's claim it will work on any POSIX machine with the > right video support). As we move more and more towards wayland as being > the pixel driver it gets worse. However that conclusion isn't supported by the experience of others, it seems far more likely you have a memory hog, find it and eliminate it (top is your friend, sorting my resident memory use) and system performance will improve no end, and yes it may be your desktop environment, but I'd bet on Firefox which leaks like a seive). -- Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org>
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