I just noticed: no more crashes! Thanks, KDE team!

[Anne Wilson]

On Sunday, August 07, 2011 Duncan wrote: 
> Anne Wilson posted on Sun, 07 Aug 2011 13:15:26 +0200 as excerpted:
> > On Saturday, August 06, 2011 Dotan Cohen wrote:
> >> On Sat, Aug 6, 2011 at 00:27, Duncan <1i5t5.duncan at cox.net> wrote:
> >> > That's why konqueror has the separate process options that
> >> > 
> >> > dolphin lacks -- the simple users dolphin targets are apparently
> >> > assumed never to have enough separate file manager windows open at
> >> > once that it really makes a difference for them.
> >> 
> >> Dolphin has the separate process option too, it's just in Konqueror.
> >> From what I understand enabling this option in Konqueror enables it for
> >> Dolphin as well, because the Konqueror file manager in KDE 4 is just an
> >> embedded Dolphin part. I can't crash Dolphin to check, but I can tell
> >> you that keeping Konqueror preloaded makes Dolphin start up much faster
> >> as well.
> > 
> > Where is this option please?
> 
> Run Konqueror, Settings menu, Configure Konqueror, Performance icon.
> 
> In the Minimize Memory Usage section, setting "Never" will force each
> window (konqueror and dolphin, it seems) into its own process, therefore
> increasing stability at the cost of memory usage -- if a window crashes,
> it should be just that window, not all of them.
> 
I've always had it set to only for file browsing, but I've changed it to never 
now.

> FWIW, there's also an at least theoretical security aspect here,
> particularly for browsing mode.  That's part of why the "use with care"
> warning is there.  If you use konqueror for online banking, etc, ensuring
> that minimize memory either never, or for file browsing only, is
> selected, and always use a separate window for online banking, so it's
> always a different process and should be more difficult to exploit a vuln
> in from a different site open in another window, as opposed to another
> tab in the same window, or in another window with shared processes.
> 
> In the Preloading section... well, it's pretty much all there.  FWIW, I
> have it set to "two" instances to keep preloaded, and both preload after
> kde startup and always try to have at least one preloaded instance are
> checked.
> 
I always assumed that that was more a matter of speeding up later openings - I 
didn't make the connection.

> So when I open an instance, if there's none left in reserve, it should
> load another in reserve.  When I close an instance, if there's now more
> than two in reserve, it'll close the extras.
> 
> FWIW2, these techniques and config options are VERY similar to those used
> by MS when it combined the file manager (Windows Explorer) and the
> Browser (Internet Explorer), along with the desktop shell.  It ended up
> with memory minimalization vs separate process stabilization options too,
> with the same three options.  And it had a preload option too, altho at
> least back in the Windows 98 era that was the last I really used it, IIRC
> it wasn't exposed except as a registry setting, and I think via TweakUI
> and later some similar third-party apps.

OK - thanks for the advice.  I've made the changes, and I'll see how it goes.

Anne
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