Chromium vs Firefox : Need testimonies

[Phill Whiteside]

And for the 'old machines'? Last thread we were talking about was making
lubuntu-core more easily available. On these low RAM machines, which as
Chad has stated are limited to v25 Chomium unless he can get v27 to build
in 32 bit, I again fail to see the advantage? F/fox as with slimmed down
memory usage is good to go now. The clock is ticking and decisions have to
be taken fairly soon. Maybe this is a subject best discussed for 14.04 LTS.

Regards,

Phill.

On 3 June 2013 20:17, Yorvyk <yorvik.ubunto at googlemail.com> wrote:

> On 02/06/13 00:16, Jonathan Marsden wrote:
>
>> On 06/01/2013 03:30 PM, Yorvyk wrote:
>>
>>  I've not found any down sides to zRAM with more than 512 MiB of
>>> RAM. Below that, especially with CPUs below 1GHz, there are
>>> frequent pauses as memory gets swapped about when the zRAM
>>> allocation has been used up and swap starts using the disk
>>> partition/file. Above 2GiB of RAM zRAM doesn't appear to have much
>>> effect.
>>>
>>
>> And this is the problem... when you *really* need it, on older slower
>> PCs with little RAM, zRAM doesn't work as smoothly as some seem to be
>> suggesting.  Using it on a 2GB Lubuntu machine seems somewhat
>> pointless... you already have enough RAM for most normal desktop
>> usage purposes in that case.
>>
>> My sense is that zRAM probably helps most in a fairly small set of
>> machines that have decent CPUs *and* limited RAM... maybe 1.5GHz to
>> 2GHz dual core CPUs and 512MB to 1GB of RAM?  But I don't think that
>> is all that common, and such machines can often add more RAM, which
>> is the right way to prolong their usefulness, I think.
>>
>>  Looks like there is some confirmation of this:-
>
> "Netbooks: Market is now getting flooded with these "lightweight
> laptops". These are memory constrained but have CPU enough to drive
> on compressed memory (e.g. Cloudbook features 1.2 GHz processor!)."
>
> From http://code.google.com/p/**compcache/<http://code.google.com/p/compcache/>
>
>
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