Re: "why is my Linux so damn slow?"

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On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 22:41:31 PM +0200, Adrian Sevcenco (Adrian.Sevcenco@xxxxxxx) 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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