"why is my Linux so damn slow?"
M. Fioretti
mfioretti at nexaima.net
Sat Feb 12 20:56:40 UTC 2011
On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 22:41:31 PM +0200, Adrian Sevcenco (Adrian.Sevcenco at cern.ch) wrote:
> On 02/12/2011 07:13 PM, M. Fioretti wrote:
> > Oh, and when I said "the system is slow even if firefox isn't running"
> > I meant that I *had* run "killall firefox". I think between this and
> Regarding firefox ..could you go in
> ~/.mozilla/firefox/_your_profile_.default and do :
> for i in *.sqlite; do echo "VACUUM;" | sqlite3 $i; done
Oh, you mean doing this trick:
http://www.gettingclever.com/2008/06/vacuum-your-firefox-3.html
Cool, thanks, I didn't know that. Man, it would be really ironic if
after years making fun of Windows because it needs defragmenting to
run faster, it turns out you have to defragment Firefox to keep Linux
fast...
This is the result on my account:
BEFORE:
-rw-r--r--. 1 marco marco 24923136 Nov 15 2008 urlclassifier2.sqlite
-rw-r--r--. 1 marco marco 2048 Jan 13 19:35 permissions.sqlite
-rw-r--r--. 1 marco marco 2048 Feb 9 10:55 search.sqlite
-rw-r--r--. 1 marco marco 129024 Feb 11 17:43 signons.sqlite
-rw-r--r--. 1 marco marco 225280 Feb 11 19:35 downloads.sqlite
-rw------- 1 marco marco 29696 Feb 12 17:22 ybookmarks.sqlite
-rw-r--r-- 1 marco marco 32768 Feb 12 17:22 urlclassifier3.sqlite
-rw-r--r--. 1 marco marco 91136 Feb 12 19:18 content-prefs.sqlite
-rw-r--r--. 1 marco marco 1307648 Feb 12 21:03 webappsstore.sqlite
-rw-r--r--. 1 marco marco 400384 Feb 12 21:28 formhistory.sqlite
-rw-r--r--. 1 marco marco 17108992 Feb 12 21:42 places.sqlite
-rw-r--r-- 1 marco marco 595968 Feb 12 21:42 cookies.sqlite
AFTER:
-rw-r--r--. 1 marco marco 92160 Feb 12 21:48 content-prefs.sqlite
-rw-r--r-- 1 marco marco 421888 Feb 12 21:48 cookies.sqlite
-rw-r--r--. 1 marco marco 60416 Feb 12 21:48 downloads.sqlite
-rw-r--r--. 1 marco marco 172032 Feb 12 21:48 formhistory.sqlite
-rw-r--r--. 1 marco marco 2048 Feb 12 21:48 permissions.sqlite
-rw-r--r--. 1 marco marco 6447104 Feb 12 21:48 places.sqlite
-rw-r--r--. 1 marco marco 2048 Feb 12 21:48 search.sqlite
-rw-r--r--. 1 marco marco 126976 Feb 12 21:48 signons.sqlite
-rw-r--r--. 1 marco marco 145408 Feb 12 21:48 urlclassifier2.sqlite
-rw-r--r-- 1 marco marco 32768 Feb 12 21:48 urlclassifier3.sqlite
-rw-r--r--. 1 marco marco 887808 Feb 12 21:48 webappsstore.sqlite
-rw------- 1 marco marco 29696 Feb 12 21:48 ybookmarks.sqlite
Impressive reduction in size. And, but do take this with a huge grain
of salt, since I'm really tired right now, I just restarted Firefox (I
had done killall firefox right before doing this trick), and I also
_want_ to see some improvement... it does seem to run faster, at least
for now.
Later, and thanks again.
Marco
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