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Why do I need a 4Ghz quadcore to run Facebook?

70 points by twapi 8y ago

LinuxBender 8y ago
Perhaps with some tweaking to the chip-set, you could overclock to 5.5Ghz. Another option might be to use Dynix PTX and link 16 x86 machines together as one logical machine to render the ads. Mini-Mainframes could make a come-back. You could also write an application to load balance the DOM's to a bunch of VM's at AWS. Beyond that, I am out of ideas. Anyone else have any ideas to help this person?
- davidyu2249 8y ago
  yes
- brian_herman__ 8y ago
  Delete his facebook?
  - dzhiurgis 8y ago
    But how you going to explain lack of social media to internal border control?
- kardos 8y ago
  A high-end Nvidia Tesla GPU might be able to make a dent in it
- beezischillin 8y ago
  Single browser tabs don't scale up to take advantage of the maximum available hardware on a modern computer (thankfully!). I'm not sure if it's intentional or just some invisible browser optimisation. Anyhow, Facebook IS extremely inefficient, the tweet just shows an example of it. If anyone wants to see some other messed up stuff, open up a chat window and inspect a chat bubble. From an i7 MacBook Pro with 16 gigs of ram /safari/ to an 8 core 16 thread Ryzen 2700X with 32 gigs of ram /chrome or ff/, nothing I have can handle having Facebook open for a long enough period without closing and reopening the tab every once in a while. It's kind of insane. The mobile apps seem to be the only somewhat performant way to access the service. Or to opt out of any timeline features and just use the chat via messenger.com.
  - pram 8y ago
    Twitter is kind of similar if you keep scrolling down someones giant media list. It isn't paged so the lower you go the more it will grind to a halt.
minimaxir 8y ago
This example is a deliberate obfuscation by Facebook to hide the "Sponsored" element from scrapers: https://www.propublica.org/article/facebook-blocks-ad-transparency-tools https://www.propublica.org/article/facebook-blocks-ad-transp... > Our tool recognized ads by searching for that word. Last year, Facebook added invisible letters to the HTML code of the site. So, to a computer, the word registered as “SpSonSsoSredS.”
- kevintb 8y ago
  Wow. Thanks for the link
- deleted 8y ago
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hawkesnest 8y ago
How about they just provide clean markup and directly mine cryptocurrency on my box instead? At this point, I'd welcome that over slow performance of the actual content and being compelled with ads.
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xyk8jic0 8y ago
I get it that you hate ads, but having a handful of DOM elements to show a word won't bump CPU usage in a measurable way.
YetAnotherNick 8y ago
> Pretty soon, it will be faster and more efficient to just send us prerendered bitmaps. I really want to do some testing in it.
- Rebelgecko 8y ago
  It would be kinda cool for all of Facebook's client-side code to just turn into a pair of <img> and <map> tags. Almost geocities-esque, and it'll still work great if you don't have Javascript enabled. Adblockers can start integrating OCR and doing image manipulation.
  - XMPPwocky 8y ago
    Eventually, you'll just ssh -X facebook.com
noir_lord 8y ago
I have the ultimate adblocker for facebook. I deleted my account about 3 years ago. Once I stopped cycling with a group it had no remaining utility for me so I ditched it. Family I communicate with via email and it's great.
am_lu 8y ago
true, meh :-( i`m just using their basic mobile site, https://mbasic.facebook.com/ https://mbasic.facebook.com/ Main site works on my office pc, intel quad core, lags on bedroom computer (athlon 2) an brings my daily thinkpad x61 to a halt. not a big fan of facebook, but the groups feature is very handy, signed up to a couple of local ones for getting freelance work in my area.

70 points by twapi 8y ago

Perhaps with some tweaking to the chip-set, you could overclock to 5.5Ghz. Another option might be to use Dynix PTX and link 16 x86 machines together as one logical machine to render the ads. Mini-Mainframes could make a come-back. You could also write an application to load balance the DOM's to a bunch of VM's at AWS. Beyond that, I am out of ideas. Anyone else have any ideas to help this person?

davidyu2249 8y ago
yes
brian_herman__ 8y ago
Delete his facebook?
- dzhiurgis 8y ago
  But how you going to explain lack of social media to internal border control?
kardos 8y ago
A high-end Nvidia Tesla GPU might be able to make a dent in it
beezischillin 8y ago
Single browser tabs don't scale up to take advantage of the maximum available hardware on a modern computer (thankfully!). I'm not sure if it's intentional or just some invisible browser optimisation. Anyhow, Facebook IS extremely inefficient, the tweet just shows an example of it. If anyone wants to see some other messed up stuff, open up a chat window and inspect a chat bubble. From an i7 MacBook Pro with 16 gigs of ram /safari/ to an 8 core 16 thread Ryzen 2700X with 32 gigs of ram /chrome or ff/, nothing I have can handle having Facebook open for a long enough period without closing and reopening the tab every once in a while. It's kind of insane. The mobile apps seem to be the only somewhat performant way to access the service. Or to opt out of any timeline features and just use the chat via messenger.com.
- pram 8y ago
  Twitter is kind of similar if you keep scrolling down someones giant media list. It isn't paged so the lower you go the more it will grind to a halt.

minimaxir 8y ago

This example is a deliberate obfuscation by Facebook to hide the "Sponsored" element from scrapers: https://www.propublica.org/article/facebook-blocks-ad-transparency-tools https://www.propublica.org/article/facebook-blocks-ad-transp... > Our tool recognized ads by searching for that word. Last year, Facebook added invisible letters to the HTML code of the site. So, to a computer, the word registered as “SpSonSsoSredS.”

kevintb 8y ago
Wow. Thanks for the link
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hawkesnest 8y ago

How about they just provide clean markup and directly mine cryptocurrency on my box instead? At this point, I'd welcome that over slow performance of the actual content and being compelled with ads.

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xyk8jic0 8y ago

I get it that you hate ads, but having a handful of DOM elements to show a word won't bump CPU usage in a measurable way.

YetAnotherNick 8y ago

> Pretty soon, it will be faster and more efficient to just send us prerendered bitmaps. I really want to do some testing in it.

Rebelgecko 8y ago
It would be kinda cool for all of Facebook's client-side code to just turn into a pair of <img> and <map> tags. Almost geocities-esque, and it'll still work great if you don't have Javascript enabled. Adblockers can start integrating OCR and doing image manipulation.
- XMPPwocky 8y ago
  Eventually, you'll just ssh -X facebook.com

noir_lord 8y ago

I have the ultimate adblocker for facebook. I deleted my account about 3 years ago. Once I stopped cycling with a group it had no remaining utility for me so I ditched it. Family I communicate with via email and it's great.

am_lu 8y ago

true, meh :-( i`m just using their basic mobile site, https://mbasic.facebook.com/ https://mbasic.facebook.com/ Main site works on my office pc, intel quad core, lags on bedroom computer (athlon 2) an brings my daily thinkpad x61 to a halt. not a big fan of facebook, but the groups feature is very handy, signed up to a couple of local ones for getting freelance work in my area.