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:
> The "/swap" partition has to be mounted. Put here the content of your "/etc/
> fstab".
Effectively, swap is not in fstab:
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
# /dev/hda8 / ext3 errors=remount-ro 0 1
UUID=fac20d2a-a9b7-4a63-973e-ff78f9bf0bc2 / ext3 errors=remount-ro 0 1
# /dev/hda5 none swap sw 0 0
UUID=bdc14217-c199-40fc-ae6b-47657e54cee3 none swap sw 0 0
# /dev/hdc /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0
/dev/cdrw /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0
UUID=44F1-9096 /mnt/pendrive1 vfat rw,user,noauto 0 0
UUID=44F1-7D0C /mnt/pendrive2 vfat rw,user,noauto 0 0
UUID=48A3-3446 /mnt/pendrive-carolina vfat rw,user,noauto 0 0
#/dev/sda1 /mnt/sda1 ext3 errors=remount-ro 0 1
image.iso /mnt/iso iso9660 ro,loop=/dev/loop0,user,noauto 0 0
Maybe the main cause of the problem is the swap partition not mounted?
>>> 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?
>
> Sure, many people does it. Or even consider using another linux
> distribution prepared to run with these kind of low resource systems.
>
>> 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.
Thanks again
Rodolfo
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