On Sat, May 18, 2019 at 01:33:20PM -0400, fsmithred via Dng wrote:
> On 5/18/19 10:03 AM, Edward Bartolo via Dng wrote:
> > Firefox ESR is freezing XFCE on ASCII. Getting to Ctrl+Alt+F1 takes
> > many seconds and logging in a terminal also takes very long. I am
> > reluctantly posting this from within Chromium.
> > _______________________________________________
> 
> Run top to see if cpu or ram are maxxed out.
> 
> Do you have many tabs open? They can suck up ram.
> Are pages running a lot of javascript? That can suck up cpu. (Anecdotal: a
> friend fixed an overheating problem by installing noscript.)

Is there an easy way in firefox of finding out whether an which tabs
are doing things like this?

-- hendrik

> 
> My computer starts to get like that when I get to around 1.5 - 1.6GB used
> out of 2GB total. If I go past 1.7 I'm screwed.

I find getting 16GB helps.  But it shouldn't be necessary,

-- hendrik
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