Re: firefox keeps freezing on me

2023-11-02 Thread Tim via users
On Thu, 2023-11-02 at 11:21 -0500, Michael Hennebry wrote: > Main, google and yahoo mail tabs seem to be taking the most CPU and memory, > 20% 618MB, 0.6% 411MG and 0.18% 159MB . > The latter two occasionally flicker to about 20% CPU. > No smoking gun. It's well to remember that it can be a

How many dirty blocks are cached for a device?

2023-11-02 Thread fedora
I can use /proc/meminfo to get the total, but I am interested in one device (or partition or fs). TIA -- Eyal at Home (fed...@eyal.emu.id.au) ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to

Re: firefox keeps freezing on me

2023-11-02 Thread Roger Heflin
It does seem that about:processes and about:performance seem to be same page. So yes about:process. When I googled it pointed me to about:performance so I have been using that without noticing that it was an alias. finding and killing/restarting the specific tab has been working for me for a

Re: firefox keeps freezing on me

2023-11-02 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Thu, 2 Nov 2023, Roger Heflin wrote: type this In the address bar: about:performance I cannot get to about:performance . 'Tis not in the about:about list. When I type about:performance , I get about:memory . click on the memory column and sort by biggest first. see what specific web

Re: firefox keeps freezing on me

2023-11-02 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Thu, 2 Nov 2023, Joe Zeff wrote: On 11/02/2023 02:10 PM, Michael Hennebry wrote: With firefox frozen. And with it closed? What I'm trying to find out is how much of that is stuff Firefox needs to keep between sessions and how much of it is session specific. 885M with firefox closed.

Re: firefox keeps freezing on me

2023-11-02 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Wed, Nov 1, 2023 at 11:12 PM Michael Hennebry wrote: > > My firefox on F38 freezes a lot. > I get "Firefox" is not responding a lot. > At one time, I thought it was because of too many windows and tabs open. > I closed several windows. > Shutting it down and bringing it back up often helped, >

Re: firefox keeps freezing on me

2023-11-02 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Thu, 2 Nov 2023, Joe Zeff wrote: On 11/02/2023 02:10 PM, Michael Hennebry wrote: With firefox frozen. And with it closed? What I'm trying to find out is how much of that is stuff Firefox needs to keep between sessions and how much of it is session specific. I'll get back to you on

Re: firefox keeps freezing on me

2023-11-02 Thread Joe Zeff
On 11/02/2023 02:10 PM, Michael Hennebry wrote: With firefox frozen. And with it closed? What I'm trying to find out is how much of that is stuff Firefox needs to keep between sessions and how much of it is session specific. ___ users mailing

Re: firefox keeps freezing on me

2023-11-02 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Thu, 2 Nov 2023, Joe Zeff wrote: On 11/02/2023 01:55 PM, Michael Hennebry wrote: On Thu, 2 Nov 2023, Joe Zeff wrote: On 11/02/2023 10:21 AM, Michael Hennebry wrote: /dev/sda7    32G   23G  7.1G  76% /home If I'm not mistaken, firefox puts its working files both in /tmp and in your

Re: firefox keeps freezing on me

2023-11-02 Thread Joe Zeff
On 11/02/2023 01:55 PM, Michael Hennebry wrote: On Thu, 2 Nov 2023, Joe Zeff wrote: On 11/02/2023 10:21 AM, Michael Hennebry wrote: /dev/sda7    32G   23G  7.1G  76% /home If I'm not mistaken, firefox puts its working files both in /tmp and in your home directory.  If so, that may be

Re: firefox keeps freezing on me

2023-11-02 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Thu, 2 Nov 2023, Joe Zeff wrote: On 11/02/2023 10:21 AM, Michael Hennebry wrote: /dev/sda7    32G   23G  7.1G  76% /home If I'm not mistaken, firefox puts its working files both in /tmp and in your home directory. If so, that may be your problem. Consider installing Bleachbit and

Re: firefox keeps freezing on me

2023-11-02 Thread Michael Hennebry
Thank you Joe Z, Tim and Richard E. Firefox just starting freezing. [hennebry@fedora ~]$ df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on devtmpfs4.0M 0 4.0M 0% /dev tmpfs 3.9G 0 3.9G 0% /dev/shm tmpfs 1.6G 1.7M 1.6G 1% /run /dev/sda331G

Re: firefox keeps freezing on me

2023-11-02 Thread simmon simmon
yeah...! I also had the same symptoms... it wasn't good. firefox-118.0.2.tar.bz2 https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/install-firefox-linux I manually setup fedora38 and applied it through the link process, and it seems to have improved, so I'm using it well.

Re: firefox keeps freezing on me

2023-11-02 Thread stan via users
On Wed, 1 Nov 2023 22:12:14 -0500 (CDT) Michael Hennebry wrote: > My firefox on F38 freezes a lot. > I get "Firefox" is not responding a lot. > At one time, I thought it was because of too many windows and tabs > open. I closed several windows. > Shutting it down and bringing it back up often

Re: firefox keeps freezing on me

2023-11-02 Thread Roger Heflin
type this In the address bar: about:performance click on the memory column and sort by biggest first. see what specific web pages are using excessive ram (usually close to 1gb or more). click on the tab: entryh that sucks and a X will appear on the far right, and click the X and the specific

Re: firefox keeps freezing on me

2023-11-02 Thread Joe Zeff
On 11/02/2023 10:21 AM, Michael Hennebry wrote: /dev/sda7    32G   23G  7.1G  76% /home If I'm not mistaken, firefox puts its working files both in /tmp and in your home directory. If so, that may be your problem. Consider installing Bleachbit and letting it clean all of the cruft out.

Re: output device changes with pipewire-0.3.83-2

2023-11-02 Thread Frank Elsner via users
On Wed, 01 Nov 2023 13:44:32 +1030 Tim via users wrote: > Tim: > >> First stab in the dark: Are all your USB cables firm? > > Frank Elsner > > Nice idea. I remember problems with this one in the past. > > Will use an other and hopefully the problem disappesrs. > > Let us know if it made any

Re: firefox keeps freezing on me

2023-11-02 Thread richard emberson
I had firefox continually freezing (Xorg) taking the gui with it. I then aliased firefox to: cpulimit -i -l 200 /usr/bin/firefox "$@" and it stopped taking the rest of the gui with it. Recently I (had to) switched to Wayland and firefox (with the alias) has only crashed 3 or 4 times but it has

Re: firefox keeps freezing on me

2023-11-02 Thread Tim via users
On Wed, 2023-11-01 at 21:24 -0600, Joe Zeff wrote: > Firefox can be quite a memory hog, depending on what you're doing. What > does > > free -h > > show you, as well as > > df There's an about:memory page in Firefox, an about:performance, an about:processes and a bunch of other info listed