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Re:The Linux kernel's inability to gracefully handle low mem... by tempguy9999 on Tuesday August 06, 2019 @05:31AM (#20623653)
If it helps any I have ~2500 tabs open in palemoon (well overdue for an afternoon of tab culling but anyway) and it's ~1.5GB. I never allow JS. So my guess is it's either JS directly, or perhaps JS pulling in extra resources when allowed to run.
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Re:The Linux kernel's inability to gracefully handle low mem... by michaelmrose on Tuesday August 06, 2019 @02:04PM (#20627782)
I think a personal wiki with clickable links to 2500 sites would be more useful than a browser with 2500 tabs open. It could even be easily curated by more than one person.

That said, Firefox some strides starting in 55 insofar as handling very large number of tabs starting in version 55.

https://www.techradar.com/news/firefoxs-blazing-speed-with-h...

Unfortunately Palemoon is more or less firefox 38 still isn't it?

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Re:The Linux kernel's inability to gracefully handle low mem... by tempguy9999 on Tuesday August 06, 2019 @03:28PM (#20628605)
Just tidying up after myself would fix most of that. I don't know what palemoon~firefox relationship is versionwise.

But my point was more that sans JS it really seems to use up far less memory. Honestly, try nuking js for 1/2 hour and see how it feels.

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Re:The Linux kernel's inability to gracefully handle low mem... by michaelmrose on Tuesday August 06, 2019 @05:50PM (#20630039)
I get annoyed at all the sites that don't work without js.

My most common scenario with js is 10 tabs using 400Mb of ram to 30 tabs using less than 1gb with the former scenario being more common.

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