Hi all, This is sort of a general question. I have a quad core AMD server with 16 Gigs of ram. I am running Hardy 2.6.24-25-server #1 SMP This morning with 16 users logged on my load average was 16 to 20 and I noticed that a single firefox process was taking 95% of my CPU. When I reniced that particular users firefox, another firefox process immediately took its place and began hogging CPU. VMSTAT showed me that my CPU's were almost 100 percent busy and that a lot of processes were waiting for service.
I see that there are some tweaks you can make to firefox to optimize it https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuLTSP/Firefox3Optimize and I guess that many folks are using Local apps in later versions of LTSP/Ubuntu to get around this issue. I just wonder why a single application can cause so much pain? Is Firefox the 900 pound gorilla of linux apps? Aside from that question which I would be interested in hearing your replies to, I wonder what approaches you take to control the beast. Does setting firefox to start with nice of 15 help? Does upgrading to FF 3.5 help? Does dumping FF and using Opera help? Thanks in advance for your ideas! John -- edubuntu-users mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-users
