Thread: Anyone interested in Privoxy?
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2008-10-15 , 16:00
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Originally Posted by brendan View Post
i only question the overhead on the device.

if you are not using the browser, why should it be running in the background? being that privoxy also does add a latent delay, it does impact the usability of the browser because of the horsepower required to run privoxy and everything one might have going on, on the NIT.
This is definitely an issue, especially when running in a "new install" configuration (i.e. booting from built-in flash and virtual memory disabled). In my tests with privoxy 3.0.8 and this type of configuration on the 770, the browser + privoxy took over 1/2 the available memory. The situation was better with v.3.0.9-beta. I haven't tested v.3.0.10 on the 770 yet.

Since privoxy runs from /etc/init.d, I suppose you could install maemo-control-services to turn it on/off when you aren't browsing. It makes browsing less convenient, but gives you more memory for other programs. Since I boot from MMC on my 800 and use a large swap partition, I haven't seen any problems with running privoxy + browser and other apps at the same time.