On Tue, 9 Jul 2019 06:24:56 -0400, fsmithred wrote in message <72121d31-c37a-3b43-1ebb-0cb264310...@gmail.com>:
> On 7/9/19 4:34 AM, Edward Bartolo via Dng wrote: > > For the information of everyone: > > > > I would like to inform all those concerned that firefox-esr is > > causing ASCII to freeze. Getting access to a terminal is almost > > impossible. Yesterday, I had to power off the machine. I did not > > investigate why the issue is happening as the system became > > extremely unresponsive. Recalling when I used MS Windows > > 95/98/Millenium, this is worse than those. > > > > > I get the same in jessie. It starts when memory use gets to around > 75% or more. It hasn't happened to me in ascii, but the box that has > ascii also has 8G ram. > > Recently, I read something that said firefox will require 2-3G of > memory in the near future. We can look forward to more of this > happening. > > What I do when it starts to slow down is ctrl-alt-F2, log in and > start killing programs. Thunderbird is usually on that kill list, > because it takes a lot of ram, too. If I wait too long to do that, it > freezes. At some point, even sysrq keys won't work. ..I run all my browsers "nice -n 17 " or lower pri and kill 'em when they get sluggish, buys me time to do manual kills on e.g. htop, in bad cases I ssh in to kill. ..also possible to deny them cpu and memory and automate killing them as they try outgrow their resource quota, but "nice -n 17 " has worked ok for me this far. -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt Karlsen ...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry... Scenarios always come in sets of three: best case, worst case, and just in case. _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
