rayluo
@rayluo Maybe list standard pages each in own tab used to reach and test the condition as well as firefox setup would help others to replicate
as far as browser is concerned. Is only firefox open, What is running in background.
Well, I don’t think it is necessary to “replicate as far as browser is concerned”. Because:
1. On my machine I use an almost-original antix image, so I don’t think there are much “running in background”. “htop” also shows no other activities, besides Firefox and some extremely-lightweight terminal apps (tmux, vim, etc.)
2. And I don’t even think it has much to do with Ads, because the memory-intensive web pages I referred to, was just a couple big-name online email or online chat application inside a web page. Those pages contains no ads by its nature. Perhaps still contains some tracking, but I doubt we can – or should – mess up with a modern rich-client application in a web page.
So, perhaps these all boil down to what particular web pages an individual would need to visit in a whatever browser, with some particular computer specs. If the workload is approaching the (ram) limit, then so be it. To that end, the title and the original intention of this thread, was to see whether antiX can be configured to NOT getting into thrashing. I found no answer to that specific question, but the zswap+swap seems a reasonable workaround.