Iceweasel/FF takes too much time to close (because it frees memory)

2010-06-03 Thread Merciadri Luca
Hi, I have noticed that my Iceweasel takes more and more time to close. When closing it, I hear the HDD spinning, and some operations seem to be done. It always close, but, even with ONE (normal webpage associated with the) tab, it might take ~10 secs. to close (GNOME keeps then asking me if I

Re: Iceweasel/FF takes too much time to close (because it frees memory)

2010-06-03 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 03 Jun 2010 10:40:14 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: I have noticed that my Iceweasel takes more and more time to close. When closing it, I hear the HDD spinning, and some operations seem to be done. It always close, but, even with ONE (normal webpage associated with the) tab, it might

Re: Iceweasel/FF takes too much time to close (because it frees memory)

2010-06-03 Thread Steven
On Thu, June 3, 2010 10:40, Merciadri Luca wrote: Hi, I have noticed that my Iceweasel takes more and more time to close. When closing it, I hear the HDD spinning, and some operations seem to be done. It always close, but, even with ONE (normal webpage associated with the) tab, it might

Re: Iceweasel/FF takes too much time to close (because it frees memory)

2010-06-03 Thread Brad Rogers
On Thu, 3 Jun 2010 08:48:21 + (UTC) Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Camaleón, To chek how big are your sqlite files. You may need to purge them. Won't help if Luca is suffering from; (firefox-bin:2788): Gdk-WARNING **: XID collision, trouble ahead Being written repeatedly to

Re: Iceweasel/FF takes too much time to close (because it frees memory)

2010-06-03 Thread Merciadri Luca
Brad Rogers wrote: On Thu, 3 Jun 2010 08:48:21 + (UTC) Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Camaleón, To chek how big are your sqlite files. You may need to purge them. Won't help if Luca is suffering from; (firefox-bin:2788): Gdk-WARNING **: XID collision, trouble

Re: Iceweasel/FF takes too much time to close (because it frees memory)

2010-06-03 Thread Merciadri Luca
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Camaleón noela...@gmail.com writes: On Thu, 03 Jun 2010 10:40:14 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: I have noticed that my Iceweasel takes more and more time to close. When closing it, I hear the HDD spinning, and some operations seem to be done. It

Re: Iceweasel/FF takes too much time to close (because it frees memory)

2010-06-03 Thread Merciadri Luca
Steven wrote: On Thu, June 3, 2010 10:40, Merciadri Luca wrote: Hi, I have noticed that my Iceweasel takes more and more time to close. When closing it, I hear the HDD spinning, and some operations seem to be done. It always close, but, even with ONE (normal webpage associated with the)

Re: Iceweasel/FF takes too much time to close (because it frees memory)

2010-06-03 Thread Brad Rogers
On Thu, 03 Jun 2010 11:06:31 +0200 Merciadri Luca luca.mercia...@student.ulg.ac.be wrote: Hello Merciadri, Where is this file? Neither in ~ nor in /etc/X11. According to the Mine's in ~. IDK why you're not finding it. Unless you missed the leading point, making it a hidden file. I think

Re: Iceweasel/FF takes too much time to close (because it frees memory)

2010-06-03 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 03 Jun 2010 11:03:17 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: Camaleón writes: *** ls -l $HOME/.mozilla/firefox/[your_profile].default | grep sqlite *** To chek how big are your sqlite files. You may need to purge them. Thanks. Well, it seems to be grand time to make some thorough cleaning:

Re: Iceweasel/FF takes too much time to close (because it frees memory)

2010-06-03 Thread Merciadri Luca
Brad Rogers wrote: On Thu, 03 Jun 2010 11:06:31 +0200 Merciadri Luca luca.mercia...@student.ulg.ac.be wrote: Hello Merciadri, Where is this file? Neither in ~ nor in /etc/X11. According to the Mine's in ~. IDK why you're not finding it. Unless you missed the leading point,

Re: Iceweasel/FF takes too much time to close (because it frees memory)

2010-06-03 Thread Steven
On Thu, June 3, 2010 11:15, Merciadri Luca wrote: Steven wrote: This might be what you are looking for: http://mozillalinks.org/wp/2009/07/vacuum-your-firefox-databases-for-better-performance/ Cleaning up firefox/iceweasel's internal databses helps a lot It had some non-negligible influence.

Re: Iceweasel/FF takes too much time to close (because it frees memory)

2010-06-03 Thread Merciadri Luca
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Steven wrote: On Thu, June 3, 2010 11:15, Merciadri Luca wrote: Steven wrote: This might be what you are looking for: http://mozillalinks.org/wp/2009/07/vacuum-your-firefox-databases-for-better-performance/ Cleaning up firefox/iceweasel's

Re: Iceweasel/FF takes too much time to close (because it frees memory)

2010-06-03 Thread Brad Rogers
On Thu, 03 Jun 2010 11:28:52 +0200 Merciadri Luca luca.mercia...@student.ulg.ac.be wrote: Hello Merciadri, I just found it. Well, it was in ~ but I had not found it some minutes ago (don't ask me why). But We have a saying here; You can't see the wood for the trees. Which would fit that.

Re: Iceweasel/FF takes too much time to close (because it frees memory)

2010-06-03 Thread Darac Marjal
On Thu, Jun 03, 2010 at 11:44:10AM +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: Thanks, Steven. What I meant by `non-negligible influence' is that I executed the whole on my sqlite files, and that the FF process then goes faster for starting closing. Yes, I'm going to put this as a cronjob. You might find

Re: Iceweasel/FF takes too much time to close (because it frees memory)

2010-06-03 Thread Merciadri Luca
Darac Marjal wrote: On Thu, Jun 03, 2010 at 11:44:10AM +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: Thanks, Steven. What I meant by `non-negligible influence' is that I executed the whole on my sqlite files, and that the FF process then goes faster for starting closing. Yes, I'm going to put this as a