Why your next home computer should be an old Xeon workstation (2019)

Re:Why your next home computer should be an old Xeon worksta... by mgbmtl on Saturday July 02, 2022 @02:41PM (#31961304)

I don't know if I'm using anything fancy, but Firefox currently is running 20 processes on my computer.

According to pstree:

    3*[Isolated Web Co───28*[{Isolated Web Co}]]
    3*[Isolated Web Co───29*[{Isolated Web Co}]]
    2*[Isolated Web Co───26*[{Isolated Web Co}]]
    Isolated Web Co───27*[{Isolated Web Co}]
    Privileged Cont───25*[{Privileged Cont}]
    RDD Process───2*[{RDD Process}]
    Socket Process───4*[{Socket Process}]
    Utility Process───2*[{Utility Process}]
    2*[Web Content───9*[{Web Content}]]
    Web Content───10*[{Web Content}]
    WebExtensions───28*[{WebExtensions}]
    chrome-gnome-sh───2*[{chrome-gnome-sh}]
    firefox-bin
    129\*[{firefox-bin}]

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Re:Why your next home computer should be an old Xeon worksta... by znpy on Saturday July 02, 2022 @02:44PM (#31961324)

Those single processes are still mostly single threaded.

Don’t get me wrong, it’s still a huge leap forward to have a single webpage running in its own process, but there’s ample room for improvement.

That’s what GP is referring to.

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Re:Why your next home computer should be an old Xeon worksta... by water8 on Sunday July 03, 2022 @07:43AM (#31966963)

And a given OS is running about 1000 threads at the same time. Unless you specifically set all your apps to very high priority / nice numbers, Your thread will still spend a lot of time waiting between context switches even if it does execute faster when it finally gets one of the few cores available

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Re:Why your next home computer should be an old Xeon worksta... by tambourine_man on Saturday July 02, 2022 @07:08PM (#31963344)

I just ran Speedometer 2.0 on Chrome on macOS:

  Single core: 61.1
  4 cores: 73.7

Speedometer tests a bunch of ToDO MVC apps in many popular frameworks. It's very heavy on DOM manipulation, parsing, painting, etc. It's the hard to parallelize stuff and stuff that's supposed to represent real world usage.

JetStream 2 is easier to multithread since it plays with Web Workers and other tricks, but still, results are depressing:

  Single core: 54.4
  4 cores: 82

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