Question: is there a way to limit the amount of memory available to mozilla nightly build (Firefox Aurora)?
Believe it or not, the system I use the most rocks, but only has 2 GB mem on it and between coding, file transfers and the 3 to 6 mozilla windows with 1 to 100 tabs open, Mozilla sucks up over half of it.
I’ve looked at the launcher options and found only ‘run as’, run in term etc.
Is there a way to limit mozilla (firefox) to, say 1 GB?
Thank you in Advance (Спасибо)
Landis.
there are some advanced settings on firefox in
about:config
page (type it in adress bar)
and filter “memory”.
I’ve tested it on Firefox 2, but it may be still true and usable.
But I have other solution for your low memory problem.
Enable large compcache buffer (2GB for example) and set vm.swappiness to 100.
This should give you about 1,5GB “additional memory” when needed.
Surely, it isn’t as fast as real memory, but much faster than swap on HDD. Im using compcache on both my machines and it works surprisingly good.
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