Hi Gillian, I have been having similar problems with all my browsers: Chrome, Opera, and possibly Fire Fox. What I see is that using multiple tabs eats up huge amounts of memory. Chrome, for example often starts two processes for each tab, each using a good sized block of memory, whether the tabs are doing anything or not. Sometimes Chrome will retain that that block, which can be quite large while it is being used, event though you close the tab. On a memory-short set up this can bring everything to a crawl. My solution with Chrome on this system is to not use tabs at all and to routinely make sure Chrome processes that should have shut down do in fact shut down. This is on an early Dell with a good enough processor but only 2 GB of memory and Win 7. Hope this helps. Dean Gerber Hope this helps
On Friday, October 3, 2014 7:47 PM, Gillian Densmore <gil.densm...@gmail.com> wrote: Anyone have some ideas what'd cause a Del to constantly only say it's at 80% ram use with only firefox open.I ask because recently the damn thing when I run firefox slows to a crawl, ctr-shift-esc says it has 80% of the ram used, and 10% of the CPU used.When I tride googling nothing stood out. I just need the damn thing to stay together long enough to be able to backup. ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com
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