FB could be hogging system resources under FF. How many additional do-dads have you got FF running? The more plug ins, the more it will hog. There are also bound to be things FB is hooking into and not letting go of when you log out. As time goes on, the processes build up and become more sticky. Might be good to reboot every month or so. Also good to do some system clean up of preferences and things with disk tools
clay On May 23, 2012, at 12:47 PM, Rich Thomas wrote: > I have this iMac, it has 4GB of memory and 4 CPUs and 1 TB drive (half empty) > with a 2TB connected for backups. The thing runs bog slow sometimes with the > spinning wheel, with Thunderbird, Firefox, maybe a Preview doc or two, > iTunes, and maybe an iChat and something else running (and Finder, which > always seems to run). > > I get this idea that this is not how it should be. I think it is Firefox > that is buggering it, as the system monitor shows FF running over 1GB of > memory usage as time goes on, and varying CPU usage up to 80-90+% sometimes. > Nothing else shows much memory or CPU usage If I close FF (and usually I > have to do a force quit) and restart it, reload my session, it seems to be > fine for awhile. Facebook seems to be the app/page that hangs most, or maybe > is causing the problem. I can't decide if FF is buggering things, or some > pages that are open in tabs in FF (and FB in particular). This seems to have > become more prevalent with the latest versions of FF, I am wondering if they > are getting so bloated that they suck up resources way out of proportion to > what they should be. > > I also hear the hard drive banging away when FF is running, but it is not > clear why or what it is doing. > > Here is what memory usage looks like (with FF shut down) > > Free 2.14GB > Wired 430.0 MB > Active 976MB > Inactive 497.2 MB > Used 1.86GB > > CPU is showing > %User 0.75 > %System 0.50 > % Idle 97.38 > 385 threads, 68 processes > > I'll get some numbers after FF has run awhile > > Any thoughts? > > --R > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
