Re: [CentOS] browsers slowing Centos 7 installation to a crawl

2019-10-09 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Wed, 9 Oct 2019, Frank Cox wrote: On Wed, 9 Oct 2019 17:14:12 -0500 (CDT) Michael Hennebry wrote: I cannot even replace the memory I removed. There might be dirt plugging up the slot. Try vacuuming the slot out (carefully) and see if it fits after that. The process gave me a better

Re: [CentOS] browsers slowing Centos 7 installation to a crawl

2019-10-09 Thread Frank Cox
On Wed, 9 Oct 2019 17:14:12 -0500 (CDT) Michael Hennebry wrote: > I cannot even replace the memory I removed. There might be dirt plugging up the slot. Try vacuuming the slot out (carefully) and see if it fits after that. -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Real D 3D Digital Cinema ~

Re: [CentOS] browsers slowing Centos 7 installation to a crawl

2019-10-09 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Tue, 6 Aug 2019, Peter wrote: 2. Run out and buy more RAM. Max your system out at 4G or 8G or whatever it will take. You will need it and appreciate it. My fears and trepidations have been realized. I finally got around to trying to install the memory I bought. No go. The first card

Re: [CentOS] browsers slowing Centos 7 installation to a crawl

2019-08-06 Thread Denniston, Todd A CIV USN NSWC CD CRANE ID (USA)
> -Original Message- > From: Tony Mountifield > Sent: Tuesday, August 06, 2019 5:44 AM > To: centos@centos.org > Subject: Re: [CentOS] browsers slowing Centos 7 installation to a crawl > > In article , > Michael Hennebry wrote: > > > > I'll need to do

Re: [CentOS] browsers slowing Centos 7 installation to a crawl

2019-08-06 Thread Tony Mountifield
In article , Michael Hennebry wrote: > > I'll need to do some digging to discover whether my box needs DDR2 or > DDR3.DDR3 > I doubt it's DDR4. Do: # dmidecode | less and look for the entries for the existing RAM you have. It will also tell you if you have any unpopulated RAM slots ("No

Re: [CentOS] browsers slowing Centos 7 installation to a crawl

2019-08-05 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Tue, 6 Aug 2019, Peter wrote: On 6/08/19 3:44 AM, Michael Hennebry wrote: In any case, Centos 7 has not always been this slow. Presumably something has changed. Websites have gotten more resource-intensive. You've run "yum updates" and now have a newer version of Firefox and/or Chrome.

Re: [CentOS] browsers slowing Centos 7 installation to a crawl

2019-08-05 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Mon, 5 Aug 2019, Richard wrote: Does the system slow down when you have your internet connection enabled, but aren't explicitly using it (i.e., not using a browser)? The slowdown only happens when the browser is open, but I do not have to be using it. If so, look at the netstat output

Re: [CentOS] browsers slowing Centos 7 installation to a crawl

2019-08-05 Thread Pete Biggs
> In any case, Centos 7 has not always been this slow. > Presumably something has changed. Firefox especially, and to some extent Chrome, have both started using much more memory recently (as in the last six months or so). I run 50+ desktops on CentOS and I've noticed more and more of them

Re: [CentOS] browsers slowing Centos 7 installation to a crawl

2019-08-05 Thread mark
Peter wrote: > On 6/08/19 6:33 AM, Richard wrote: > >>> Javascript - if you're using firefox, install NoScript last week. >>> >> >> NoScript selectively blocks javascript, it doesn't turn it off -- >> which for testing purposes, at least, is the goal. >> >> In ff -- about:config - then enter

Re: [CentOS] browsers slowing Centos 7 installation to a crawl

2019-08-05 Thread mark
Richard wrote: >> Date: Monday, August 05, 2019 13:38:49 -0400 >> From: mark > >>> Richard wrote: >>> >>> Does the system slow down when you have your internet connection >>> enabled, but aren't explicitly using it (i.e., not using a browser)? If >>> so, look at the netstat output (as root) to

Re: [CentOS] browsers slowing Centos 7 installation to a crawl

2019-08-05 Thread Peter
On 6/08/19 6:33 AM, Richard wrote: Javascript - if you're using firefox, install NoScript last week. NoScript selectively blocks javascript, it doesn't turn it off -- which for testing purposes, at least, is the goal. In ff -- about:config - then enter "javascript" in the search line and set

Re: [CentOS] browsers slowing Centos 7 installation to a crawl

2019-08-05 Thread Peter
On 6/08/19 3:44 AM, Michael Hennebry wrote: In any case, Centos 7 has not always been this slow. Presumably something has changed. Websites have gotten more resource-intensive. You've run "yum updates" and now have a newer version of Firefox and/or Chrome. Your browsing habits have changed

Re: [CentOS] browsers slowing Centos 7 installation to a crawl

2019-08-05 Thread Richard
> Date: Monday, August 05, 2019 13:38:49 -0400 > From: mark >> Richard wrote: >> >> Does the system slow down when you have your internet connection >> enabled, but aren't explicitly using it (i.e., not using a >> browser)? If so, look at the netstat output (as root) to see >> what's going

Re: [CentOS] browsers slowing Centos 7 installation to a crawl

2019-08-05 Thread mark
Richard wrote: >> Date: Monday, August 05, 2019 10:44:00 -0500 >> From: Michael Hennebry >> >> To be clear, by "Centos 7 installation", >> I meant a PC on which Centos 7 was installed. >> >> In any case, Centos 7 has not always been this slow. >> Presumably something has changed. >> I've been

Re: [CentOS] browsers slowing Centos 7 installation to a crawl

2019-08-05 Thread Richard
> Date: Monday, August 05, 2019 10:44:00 -0500 > From: Michael Hennebry > > To be clear, by "Centos 7 installation", > I meant a PC on which Centos 7 was installed. > > In any case, Centos 7 has not always been this slow. > Presumably something has changed. > I've been living with this for

Re: [CentOS] browsers slowing Centos 7 installation to a crawl

2019-08-05 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Mon, 5 Aug 2019, Peter wrote: On 5/08/19 10:42 AM, Michael Hennebry wrote: Mem:    2020144 1454904   76140  204764  489100 135004 Swap:   4883724  978480 3905244 free -h is generally more readable, but... It's RAM. You basically have a total of 2G ram on

Re: [CentOS] browsers slowing Centos 7 installation to a crawl

2019-08-05 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Sun, 4 Aug 2019, John Pierce wrote: So you need to modify the source file that NetworkManager is using. somewhere in /etc/network or /etc/networking-scripts, a config file has DNS0=192.168.0.1 or sokmething, or your system is getting that from DHCP Will check on that. the web login on

Re: [CentOS] browsers slowing Centos 7 installation to a crawl

2019-08-05 Thread Jonathan Billings
> On Aug 5, 2019, at 4:12 AM, Peter wrote: > > On 5/08/19 10:42 AM, Michael Hennebry wrote: >> Mem:2020144 1454904 76140 204764 489100 >> 135004 >> Swap: 4883724 978480 3905244 > > free -h is generally more readable, but... > > It's RAM. You

Re: [CentOS] browsers slowing Centos 7 installation to a crawl

2019-08-05 Thread Peter
On 5/08/19 10:42 AM, Michael Hennebry wrote: Mem:    2020144 1454904   76140  204764  489100 135004 Swap:   4883724  978480 3905244 free -h is generally more readable, but... It's RAM. You basically have a total of 2G ram on the system, you have less

Re: [CentOS] browsers slowing Centos 7 installation to a crawl

2019-08-04 Thread John Pierce
On Sun, Aug 4, 2019 at 7:53 PM Michael Hennebry < henne...@web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu> wrote: > On Sun, 4 Aug 2019, John Pierce wrote: > > > are you running a name server on 192.168.0.1 ? what that ipv6 address ? > > I expect that that is in the box with midco's router. > Do not know about the ipv6

Re: [CentOS] browsers slowing Centos 7 installation to a crawl

2019-08-04 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Sun, 4 Aug 2019, John Pierce wrote: are you running a name server on 192.168.0.1 ? what that ipv6 address ? I expect that that is in the box with midco's router. Do not know about the ipv6 address. I was about to show to what I had changed resolv.conf, but something changed it back.

Re: [CentOS] browsers slowing Centos 7 installation to a crawl

2019-08-04 Thread John Pierce
are you running a name server on 192.168.0.1 ? what that ipv6 address ? On Sun, Aug 4, 2019 at 3:53 PM Michael Hennebry < henne...@web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu> wrote: > On Sun, 4 Aug 2019, John Pierce wrote: > > > your DNS settings are in /etc/resolv.conf, just like every other unix > > system

Re: [CentOS] browsers slowing Centos 7 installation to a crawl

2019-08-04 Thread Jay Hart
Sounds like you need to go through your packages and uninstall everything not essential!!! Jay > Something I just remembered because I saw it again: > When I start chromium, > I keep getting pop-ups to enter the password to unlock my login keyring. > Me no have keyring, except the metal things

Re: [CentOS] browsers slowing Centos 7 installation to a crawl

2019-08-04 Thread Bee.Lists
Infected Chromium apps are all over the place now. They auto-install and make themselves preferred browsers that auto-start after reboots. Very bad. > On Aug 4, 2019, at 7:11 PM, Michael Hennebry > wrote: > > Something I just remembered because I saw it again: > When I start chromium, >

Re: [CentOS] browsers slowing Centos 7 installation to a crawl

2019-08-04 Thread Michael Hennebry
Something I just remembered because I saw it again: When I start chromium, I keep getting pop-ups to enter the password to unlock my login keyring. Me no have keyring, except the metal things in my pockets. -- Michael henne...@web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu "Sorry but your password must contain an

Re: [CentOS] browsers slowing Centos 7 installation to a crawl

2019-08-04 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Sun, 4 Aug 2019, John Pierce wrote: your DNS settings are in /etc/resolv.conf, just like every other unix system since forever. Much to my surprise, I found this: # Generated by NetworkManager search midcoip.net nameserver 192.168.0.1 nameserver 2001:48f8:3004:2ce:5a19:f8ff:fe9e:a4bc I

Re: [CentOS] browsers slowing Centos 7 installation to a crawl

2019-08-04 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Sun, 4 Aug 2019, Jonathan Billings wrote: Are you sure you don?t have other processes or users running on the system? It only happens when you have a network connection? It might also be swapping heavily, check to see how much RAM you have. Check the output of ?free?. Pretty sure. I

Re: [CentOS] browsers slowing Centos 7 installation to a crawl

2019-08-04 Thread Jonathan Billings
On Aug 4, 2019, at 1:38 PM, Michael Hennebry wrote: > Now my problem is that whenever I have a > browser open and an internet connection, > my Centos 7 slows to a crawl. > Chromium seems to be the least bad. > Sometimes it slows to the point that I cannot even move the mouse. > Even switching

Re: [CentOS] browsers slowing Centos 7 installation to a crawl

2019-08-04 Thread John Pierce
your DNS settings are in /etc/resolv.conf, just like every other unix system since forever. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] browsers slowing Centos 7 installation to a crawl

2019-08-04 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Sun, 4 Aug 2019, Michael Hennebry wrote: I'm finding elinks hard to navigate, but at least it's not slowing stuff to a crawl either. Might have written too soon. elinks is starting to slow down, e.g. down arrow sometimes takes a full minute to respond. -- Michael

Re: [CentOS] browsers slowing Centos 7 installation to a crawl

2019-08-04 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Sun, 4 Aug 2019, Michael Hennebry wrote: No place to type a url. Found g. I'm finding elinks hard to navigate, but at least it's not slowing stuff to a crawl either. -- Michael henne...@web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu "Sorry but your password must contain an uppercase letter, a number, a haiku,

Re: [CentOS] browsers slowing Centos 7 installation to a crawl

2019-08-04 Thread Michael Hennebry
elinks does not seem to be working for me. I typed in google.com as my first url. There seems to be no way out of google, nor any way further in. No place to type a url. What appears to be the search window is black and does not accept input. Oops. Now I seem to have clicked on google help or

Re: [CentOS] browsers slowing Centos 7 installation to a crawl

2019-08-04 Thread Jonathan Billings
On Aug 4, 2019, at 2:16 PM, Michael Hennebry wrote: > I'll try it. My expectation is that it will work just fine *once it starts*. > That is my experience with downloading using a browser. > In the case of wget, the issue will be typinng the command. > Suggestion for a file? A Centos iso

Re: [CentOS] browsers slowing Centos 7 installation to a crawl

2019-08-04 Thread John Pierce
On Sun, Aug 4, 2019 at 11:16 AM Michael Hennebry < henne...@web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu> wrote: > On Sun, 4 Aug 2019, Frank Cox wrote: > > > What happens if you try browsing some websites with elinks? > > What is an elink? > elinks is a text mode browser, as is links, and the venerable lynx --

Re: [CentOS] browsers slowing Centos 7 installation to a crawl

2019-08-04 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Sun, 4 Aug 2019, Frank Cox wrote: On Sun, 4 Aug 2019 12:38:29 -0500 (CDT) Michael Hennebry wrote: Any suggestions on how to diagnose it? What happens if you try downloading a large file with wget? I'll try it. My expectation is that it will work just fine *once it starts*. That is my

Re: [CentOS] browsers slowing Centos 7 installation to a crawl

2019-08-04 Thread Frank Cox
On Sun, 4 Aug 2019 12:38:29 -0500 (CDT) Michael Hennebry wrote: > Any suggestions on how to diagnose it? What happens if you try downloading a large file with wget? What happens if you try browsing some websites with elinks? -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Real D 3D Digital Cinema ~

[CentOS] browsers slowing Centos 7 installation to a crawl

2019-08-04 Thread Michael Hennebry
My video problems mentioned in a previous thread are gone, though I do not know why. Now my problem is that whenever I have a browser open and an internet connection, my Centos 7 slows to a crawl. Chromium seems to be the least bad. Sometimes it slows to the point that I cannot even move the