Re: Web browser gets slow and blocks the system
On Sun, 27 May 2012 10:28:27 +0000, Rodolfo Medina wrote:
>> Recently I've been having a problem with my web browser: it gets slow,
>> the mouse and the keyboard don't respond any more and I have to unplug
>> the machine. Can anybody suggest how I can detect why this happen and
>> provide a remedy?
Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com> writes:
> Rodolfo,
>
> I'm still unsure about the origin of the problem. We are pointing to the
> web browser as the culprit for the system freeze but given that is not
> just Icewasel exposing the same issue, we can also consider another
> sources.
>
> 1/ Have you experienced the problem when running another applications
> (different than the browser)
No, never: it only happens with the web browser.
> 2/ Can you still login to the system when it freezes, I mean, from ssh?
I haven't tried, I wouldn't well know how.
> 3/ Have you updated yet your Iceweasel? :-)
No, I haven't: but why is this important?
> 4/ Is there something at the logs?
I woudn't know how to check that.
> 5/ What VGA driver are you using and what's your VGA card?
I wouldn't know how to check that, but the problem didn't use to occur in the
past, at least not so often and regularly, every day.
> 6/ How much RAM has your system and what says "free -m" when you launch
> the browser?
Before launching the browser, the command `free -m' gives something like:
$ free -m
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 216 154 62 0 6 61
-/+ buffers/cache: 85 130
Swap: 0 0 0
, whereas, when `mozilla' is running, it gives:
$ free -m
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 216 208 8 0 0 20
-/+ buffers/cache: 187 28
Swap: 0 0 0
Thanks for (I hope!) further help
Rodolfo
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