Re: Web browser gets slow and blocks the system
Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com> writes:
>>> 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.
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!
Rodolfo
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