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:
>>> 1/ Have you experienced the problem when running another applications
>>> (different than the browser)
>>
>> No, never: it only happens with the web browser.
>
> Okay.
[...]
>>> 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
>
> Wow... 216 MB of ram and you have _no swap_? That's suicide...
When I parted the hard disk, I remeber leaving about 1 gigabite swap, and in
fact here it is from `parted':
# parted
GNU Parted 1.8.8
Using /dev/sda
Welcome to GNU Parted! Type 'help' to view a list of commands.
(parted) p
Model: ATA SAMSUNG MP0402H (scsi)
Disk /dev/sda: 40.1GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: msdos
Number Start End Size Type File system Flags
1 32.3kB 8390MB 8390MB primary fat32 boot
2 8390MB 40.1GB 31.7GB extended lba
5 8390MB 9434MB 1045MB logical linux-swap
6 9434MB 21.0GB 11.5GB logical ext3
7 21.0GB 26.2GB 5239MB logical ext3
8 26.2GB 40.1GB 13.8GB logical ext3
I don't know why it does not figure in `free -m', but it is there.
> And 130 MB of available ram. It looks too low.
>
>> , 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
>
> What the...!!! >:-O
>
> How can you pretend to run your system with as little as 28 MB of
> available ram? You are likey running out of memory, so either add
> more ram (this is highly recommended) or use a ligthweight desktop/
> window manager with programs that are not as resource and memory
> hungry as iceweasel is.
Do you think it is possible to work it out using a lighter desktop manager?
But why didn't the problem occur before in the past? It has become heavy only
recently, and the machine is always the same.
Thanks for your help
Rodolfo
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