Re: Firefox Crashes; slow xfce

[Guillaume Simon]

Unless your current user is in the daemon login class (which is
unlikely), it shouldn't.
Have a look to the manual page of login.conf(5) to understand how it works.
When you edit your login.conf, you have to login again for your
modifications to take effect.
It may explain a difference between the theorical value of your
login.conf file, and the real current value.


Le 04/20/16 18:29, Daniel Boyd a écrit :
> openfiles-cur is set to 128 under daemon in my login.conf.  Could that be
> affecting it?
>
> On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 10:51 AM, Guillaume Simon <
> guillaume.si...@mailoo.org> wrote:
>
>> Your nofiles(descriptors) may be too low.
>> You should consider increasing it to 512 or more
>> The weird thing is it doesn't match the "openfiles-cur" of your default
>> login class (2048, according to your first email).
>>
>> Le 04/20/16 16:41, Daniel Boyd a écrit :
>>> $ ulimit -a
>>> time(cpu-seconds)unlimited
>>> file(blocks) unlimited
>>> coredump(blocks) unlimited
>>> data(kbytes) 3584000
>>> stack(kbytes)4096
>>> lockedmem(kbytes)2701637
>>> memory(kbytes)   8101908
>>> nofiles(descriptors) 128
>>> processes256

Re: Firefox Crashes; slow xfce

[Guillaume Simon]

Your nofiles(descriptors) may be too low.
You should consider increasing it to 512 or more
The weird thing is it doesn't match the "openfiles-cur" of your default
login class (2048, according to your first email).

Le 04/20/16 16:41, Daniel Boyd a écrit :
> $ ulimit -a
> time(cpu-seconds)unlimited
> file(blocks) unlimited
> coredump(blocks) unlimited
> data(kbytes) 3584000
> stack(kbytes)4096
> lockedmem(kbytes)2701637
> memory(kbytes)   8101908
> nofiles(descriptors) 128
> processes256

Re: Firefox Crashes; slow xfce

[Guillaume Simon - Mailoo]

For what it's worth, Firefox may be quite usable even on an old config
when you add plugins limiting javascript usage such as :
- RequestPolicy
- Noscript

I use it daily on an 11 years old computer and prefere it over xombrero
because of the following issues :
- https://github.com/conformal/xombrero/issues/128
- https://github.com/conformal/xombrero/issues/90

It may not be enough for your javscript-based web development or on the
contrary it may give you an insight of the bloat-level of the framework
you use. ;)

Le 04/18/16 22:13, Daniel Boyd a écrit :
> Thanks -- I will give xombrero a shot.  Definitely need javascript support
> as I am currently composing this in Gmail  and do quite a bit of
> javscript-based web development :)
>
> On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 1:31 PM,  wrote:
>
>> I think the problem is with firefox itself.
>> tedu@ wrote a post about this:
>> http://www.tedunangst.com/flak/post/firefox-vs-rthreads
>>
>> Since the code is so bloated, no one will ever waste time trying to fix
>> all the issues. Just switch to some other browser, there's plenty of
>> options.
>> I'm using Links 2.12 on -stable and it works fine for my needs. But
>> there's also Xombrero if you need javascript support.