Re: Web browser gets slow and blocks the system
On Wed, 30 May 2012 18:58:23 +0000, Rodolfo Medina wrote:
> Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com> writes:
(...)
>>>> But why didn't the problem occur before in the past? It has become
>>>> heavy only recently, and the machine is always the same.
>>>
>>> I can't tell but your system can't be happy with 216 MB of ram and
>>> running applications such as Iceweasel. Sooner or later it has to
>>> break.
>
> Is it possible that ram has decreased? Now I noticed that the problem
> also occurs running `scanimage'. I don't remember it ever occurred in
> the past!
RAM is always a scarce resource but it cannot physically dissapear ;-)
Anyway, reconsider your current running desktop and aplications; with
less than 512 MB of RAM your system will suffer from constant hicups now
and then if you try to use GNOME or KDE and the so called "big
browsers" (Firefox/Opera/Chrome...).
Just for you to get the idea, in my system (64-bits with 8 GiB of RAM),
Firefox takes "99 MiB" of real memory (now 101 MiB)... go figure.
Greetings,
--
Camaleón
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