Chromium vs Firefox : Need testimonies

[Yorvyk]

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/


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Steve