Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Firefox occasionally stalls

Alan McKinnon wrote: > > I got fed up dealing with Firefox addons, so took the alternate route I > used about every 6 months or so: > > emerge -et world > > and everything is nice and stable now after 48 hours running. I actually > suspect an intel driver/mesa problem as I would often also get

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Firefox occasionally stalls

Kai Krakow wrote: > Am Thu, 30 Mar 2017 07:39:04 -0500 > schrieb Dale : > >> Kai Krakow wrote: >>> Am Wed, 29 Mar 2017 17:08:39 -0500 >>> schrieb Dale : >>> Peter Humphrey wrote: >> [...] >> [...] >> [...] I tried it on one profile

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Am Thu, 30 Mar 2017 07:39:04 -0500 schrieb Dale : > Kai Krakow wrote: > > Am Wed, 29 Mar 2017 17:08:39 -0500 > > schrieb Dale : > > > >> Peter Humphrey wrote: > [...] > [...] > [...] > >> I tried it on one profile I have and it was not

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Firefox occasionally stalls

Kai Krakow wrote: > Am Wed, 29 Mar 2017 17:08:39 -0500 > schrieb Dale : > >> Peter Humphrey wrote: >>> On Tuesday 21 Mar 2017 14:59:48 Dale wrote: >>> Ublock is another option as well. I use it on some Firefox profiles. It does seem to respond better than Adblock

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Firefox occasionally stalls

On 21/03/2017 21:50, Kai Krakow wrote: > Am Tue, 21 Mar 2017 21:35:36 +0200 > schrieb Alan McKinnon : > >> This post is rather vague, sorry about that in advance. >> >> I've spent much time on this and gotten absolutely nowhere. So I >> conclude all my thoughts and

[gentoo-user] Re: Firefox occasionally stalls

Am Wed, 29 Mar 2017 17:08:39 -0500 schrieb Dale : > Peter Humphrey wrote: > > On Tuesday 21 Mar 2017 14:59:48 Dale wrote: > > > >> Ublock is another option as well. I use it on some Firefox > >> profiles. It does seem to respond better than Adblock but some > >> things I

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Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Tuesday 21 Mar 2017 14:59:48 Dale wrote: > >> Ublock is another option as well. I use it on some Firefox profiles. >> It does seem to respond better than Adblock but some things I don't like >> about Ublock. >> >> I may look into that Ghostery too. See if it is

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On Tuesday 21 Mar 2017 14:59:48 Dale wrote: > Ublock is another option as well. I use it on some Firefox profiles. > It does seem to respond better than Adblock but some things I don't like > about Ublock. > > I may look into that Ghostery too. See if it is available for Firefox > and

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On Wednesday 22 Mar 2017 23:48:06 Kai Krakow wrote: > Am Wed, 22 Mar 2017 15:12:36 + > schrieb Peter Humphrey : > > You have me thinking now. I have a couple of spare 1TB SSDs here, and > > my workstation is a 12-core i7 running on a 256GB NVMe drive with 32 > > GB RAM.

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Am Wed, 22 Mar 2017 15:12:36 + schrieb Peter Humphrey : > On Tuesday 21 Mar 2017 22:50:04 Kai Krakow wrote: > > ---<8 > > > I'm combining this with bcache. That's a cache between kernel and > > filesystem that you put on SSD. Apparently, it requires > > repartitioning

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On Tuesday 21 Mar 2017 22:50:04 Kai Krakow wrote: ---<8 > I'm combining this with bcache. That's a cache between kernel and > filesystem that you put on SSD. Apparently, it requires repartitioning > to map your filesystem through bcache (it has to add a protective > superblock in front of your

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Am Tue, 21 Mar 2017 22:50:04 +0100 schrieb Kai Krakow : [...] > BTW: Laptop disks are really slow usually because most manufacturers > only build them with 5400 RPM disks. Maybe get a hybrid disk instead > if you only have one slot. I think, Seagate still makes those. It >

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On Tuesday 21 Mar 2017 22:50:04 Kai Krakow wrote: > Am Tue, 21 Mar 2017 23:22:48 +0200 > > schrieb Alan McKinnon : > > On 21/03/2017 22:16, Kai Krakow wrote: > > > Test one by one... Either disable all, then enable one by one, or > > > vice-versa. > > > > > > Chances are

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Am Tue, 21 Mar 2017 23:22:48 +0200 schrieb Alan McKinnon : > On 21/03/2017 22:16, Kai Krakow wrote: > > Test one by one... Either disable all, then enable one by one, or > > vice-versa. > > > > Chances are that your FS may be blocking on sync. Do you maybe have > > a very

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Am Tue, 21 Mar 2017 23:14:16 +0200 schrieb Alan McKinnon : > On 21/03/2017 22:25, Kai Krakow wrote: > [...] > >> Good idea. For posterity so's I don;t forget: > >> > >> - gentoo home page > >> - one or more readthedocs sites (especially docs.ansible.com) > >> - 1 or

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On 21/03/2017 22:16, Kai Krakow wrote: Test one by one... Either disable all, then enable one by one, or vice-versa. Chances are that your FS may be blocking on sync. Do you maybe have a very high value in /proc/sys/vm/dirty_background_{ratio,bytes}? If ratio is 0, then bytes is used. Ratio is

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On 21/03/2017 22:25, Kai Krakow wrote: I see this with some websites that do some weird stuff. CPU for at least one core then also goes to 100÷. Make a list of websites open in tabs when it happens to see if there are common ones that are always there when you have the issue. Good idea. For

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Am Tue, 21 Mar 2017 22:11:58 +0200 schrieb Alan McKinnon : > On 21/03/2017 22:04, J. Roeleveld wrote: > > On March 21, 2017 8:35:36 PM GMT+01:00, Alan McKinnon > > wrote: > >> This post is rather vague, sorry about that in advance. > >> > >>

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Am Tue, 21 Mar 2017 21:51:05 +0200 schrieb Alan McKinnon : > On 21/03/2017 21:50, Kai Krakow wrote: > > Am Tue, 21 Mar 2017 21:35:36 +0200 > > schrieb Alan McKinnon : > > > >> This post is rather vague, sorry about that in advance. > >> > >>

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Firefox occasionally stalls

Kai Krakow wrote: > Am Tue, 21 Mar 2017 21:35:36 +0200 > schrieb Alan McKinnon : > >> This post is rather vague, sorry about that in advance. >> >> I've spent much time on this and gotten absolutely nowhere. So I >> conclude all my thoughts and assumptions are wrong and

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Firefox occasionally stalls

On 21/03/2017 21:50, Kai Krakow wrote: Am Tue, 21 Mar 2017 21:35:36 +0200 schrieb Alan McKinnon : This post is rather vague, sorry about that in advance. I've spent much time on this and gotten absolutely nowhere. So I conclude all my thoughts and assumptions are

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Am Tue, 21 Mar 2017 21:35:36 +0200 schrieb Alan McKinnon : > This post is rather vague, sorry about that in advance. > > I've spent much time on this and gotten absolutely nowhere. So I > conclude all my thoughts and assumptions are wrong and not worth even > sharing