On Sun, 30 Jan 2011 22:00:14 +0000, Russell L. Harris wrote: > Occasionally while browsing with iceweasel, the machine slows to a crawl > and the processor usage (as displayed by system monitor) stays at 100 > percent. Almost always, this happens when browsing a web site which > uses drupal as its engine.
Run "top" and sort by CPU usage to find the culprit. > I have experienced this phenomenon with Etch, Lenny, and Squeeze, and on > various machines. > > Because of a previous experience in which drupal appears to have given > vandals access to my web site, I suspect that the culprit is drupal; but > perhaps the combination of iceweasel and drupal has a synergstic effect > for the worse. Drupal "per se" cannot be the culprit. It's quite wide and plenty of modules. Most probably is that a concrete combination of some scripting or DOM techniques used within the portal is giving headaches to your browser. Modern (and the most up-to-date) browsers tend to handle better such situations. Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/pan.2011.01.31.12.13...@gmail.com