Very fantasy technique: Process's memory space is reduced!

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Hi.

Yesterday, I've seen very very fantasy application which can reduce memory space of specific process.
It is

Firemin

Whenever I browse homepages with Firefox 24.0, it uses approximately 100~200MB of memory space. So I've download Firemin application and ran it.

When I use Firemin, firefox's memory space is reduced and it use apporximately 100~20MB of memory space.

How does Firemin work and how can I call this technique?
And how can I implement this technique?

Please, help me.

※ You can see it at http://www.ghacks.net/2011/07/01/firefox-plumber-drop-firefox-memory-usage/[^].

Posted 24-Oct-13 14:33pm

WuRunZhe

Updated 24-Oct-13 17:30pm

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 24-Oct-13 21:14pm

This is not because Firemin is that good, it's because Firefox sucks in memory management, which was a matter of many discussions...
Now, why do you publish your e-mail? Like spamming?
Why not simply putting a link to this product?
And why not asking its authors?
—SA

WuRunZhe 24-Oct-13 23:45pm

Well, I see it on "http://www.ghacks.net/2011/07/01/firefox-plumber-drop-firefox-memory-usage/". It says like this.

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While it is not clear how the program does its magic, it is likely that it moves the memory to the disk cache. While that drops the memory usage, it also could slow down operations due to the slower speed of the hard drive in comparison to the computer's RAM. It still can be beneficial if the computer has little RAM installed. The process does not seem to have an effect on the computer's cpu usage though. At least on my modern PC I was not able to come to the conclusion that running the program did not affect the cpu usage.

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Could you teach me how to move memory to disk cache?

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov · Accepted Answer · 2013-10-24T15:25:00

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This product is questionable. Please see:

LoudNoise wrote:
Broke the link. The program attempts to solve the problem of Firefox using 500 MGs. Since this isn't a problem unless you are using Win 98 it is pretty clear it is attempting to make you install a toolbar so that the "developer" will get some bucks (a very few).

And, by the way, be careful. With questions like that, you can easily be accused in commercial spamming. The product is not open-source, and is generally suspicious.

As the the Moziall memory management problem, it does exist. Please see: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-uses-too-much-memory-ram[^].

Sorry for not answering the question on how it works, I just don't know. :-)

—SA

Posted 24-Oct-13 15:25pm

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov

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WuRunZhe 24-Oct-13 23:29pm

You are welcome. I accept your advice.

Well, you said right. But I just want to know how can reduce memory space of running process, not just at Firemin's technique.

There is no topics about reduing memory space of running process on google. Can you help me?

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 24-Oct-13 23:58pm

But you did not accept it formally. I would understand if it does not satisfy you though...
—SA

WuRunZhe 25-Oct-13 6:31am

Yes, you are right. I'm not satisfied. I'm sorry.

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 25-Oct-13 9:56am

Understood... :-)
—SA

WuRunZhe 24-Oct-13 23:39pm

Well, I have already seen "http://www.codeproject.com/Questions/671050/How-can-I-make-mozconfig" and do that. But initial memory space of Firefox 24 which has no tabs only blank page is approximately 45~60MB. It's too much and reducing method wrote on "http://www.codeproject.com/Questions/671050/How-can-I-make-mozconfig" can not reduce initial memory of Firefox 24.0.

I want to reduce initial memory of Firefox 24.0.