On Tuesday, 14 Dec 2021 at 09:14, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> If at all possible, that system would benefit greatly from moving the
> system to an SSD.
I do have one system with an SSD and these drives do have an incredible
positive performance impact.
With respect to the system I have been referrin
On Lu, 13 dec 21, 11:40:15, Eric S Fraga wrote:
> On Friday, 10 Dec 2021 at 12:23, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> > I've seen some hints on the web that slow storage can also have an
> > impact, something to do with periodic flushing of some sqlite database
> > to persistent storage.
>
> This is indeed
On Friday, 10 Dec 2021 at 12:23, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> I've seen some hints on the web that slow storage can also have an
> impact, something to do with periodic flushing of some sqlite database
> to persistent storage.
This is indeed a very likely explanation. The disk drives on this
system
On Lu, 01 nov 21, 07:58:09, Eric S Fraga wrote:
> On Sunday, 31 Oct 2021 at 09:17, piorunz wrote:
> > Nah. Problem is your computer, not Firefox.
>
> Rather dismissive?
>
> Everything else on this "slow" computer (yes, it's old but has 4
> dual-core Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-1620 v2 @ 3.70GHz proc
On Monday, 1 Nov 2021 at 14:53, piorunz wrote:
> Glad I could help you move to (hopefully) right direction.
Thank you for all the suggestions.
My solution is straightforward: I open Firefox when I need it (usually
these days only for banking, using eww in Emacs for most everything else
web rela
On 01/11/2021 14:02, Eric S Fraga wrote:
Your comment about the GPU driver is helpful as I probably don't have
the optimum graphics card settings (I do very little graphical work:
mostly text in Emacs all day long...). I have an nvidia graphics card
and my experience with nvidia has never been
On Monday, 1 Nov 2021 at 10:38, piorunz wrote:
> Sorry if you felt offended.
Not offended! :-)
> No single application should slow down entire system with 32GB of RAM, 2
Agreed, it shouldn't. But my experience is that it does. Why? I don't
know.
Your comment about the GPU driver is helpful
On 01/11/2021 13:14, Tixy wrote:
Sure it can, depends on how many processes and threads the application
uses. E.g. transcoding a video will quite happily eat most of the time
on all my CPUs
In that case just decrease Firefox priority using htop when already
running, or nice during starting Fire
On Mon, 2021-11-01 at 10:38 +, piorunz wrote:
> No single application should slow down entire system with 32GB of RAM, 2
> CPUs and multiple threads, unless something is misconfigured...
Sure it can, depends on how many processes and threads the application
uses. E.g. transcoding a video will
On 01/11/2021 07:58, Eric S Fraga wrote:
On Sunday, 31 Oct 2021 at 09:17, piorunz wrote:
Nah. Problem is your computer, not Firefox.
Rather dismissive?
Everything else on this "slow" computer (yes, it's old but has 4
dual-core Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-1620 v2 @ 3.70GHz processors and 32 GB
RAM
On Sunday, 31 Oct 2021 at 09:17, piorunz wrote:
> Nah. Problem is your computer, not Firefox.
Rather dismissive?
Everything else on this "slow" computer (yes, it's old but has 4
dual-core Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-1620 v2 @ 3.70GHz processors and 32 GB
RAM) works just fine otherwise. Drive and me
kaye n writes:
SORRY I SHOULD HAVE SENT IT TO DEBIAN LIST
Never mind, I am taking this as an OK to post my answer to the list :)
On Sun, Oct 31, 2021 at 9:16 PM kaye n wrote:
On Fri, Oct 29, 2021 at 10:35 PM Linux-Fan wrote:
[...]
I'd suggest to try debugging _why_ Firefox ha
On 31/10/2021 13:22, kaye n wrote:
This currentLXQT / Firefox slowing down computer issue is currently on
the old desktop computer, which has access to good wifi speed.
RAM of this desktop computer is 3GB only.
I'm running an installed 11 system, not a live USB stick.
Thank you.
Please show sc
On Fri, Oct 29, 2021 at 10:49 PM David Wright
wrote:
> On Fri 29 Oct 2021 at 20:59:06 (+0800), kaye n wrote:
> > On Fri, Oct 29, 2021 at 8:52 PM Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:
> > > On Fri, Oct 29, 2021 at 08:22:15PM +0800, kaye n wrote:
> > > > LXQT says,
> > > >
> > > > It will not get in your way. I
On 29/10/2021 13:56, kaye n wrote:
For example when I'm using Firefox and I have about 10 to 12 websites
opened in different tabs
First tab is google, second is ebay, third is amazon, third is youtube, etc.
That's when things get real slow.
I have the CPU Monitor widget on the taskbar. It goes
On 29/10/2021 14:57, Eric S Fraga wrote:
My experience is that Firefox, if you open too many tabs and especially
some of the very javascript heavy ones, gets bogged down quite severely
and requires restarting. It can slow the whole system down in my
experience.
Nah. Problem is your computer, n
Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:
>> Maybe you're right about Firefox. Any "light" browsers you can recommend?
>
> If all else fails, you could try netsurf: maintained by Debian developers who
> really care about the quality of their code.
Interesting, I will have a look at it too, out of curiousity. I
On Fri 29 Oct 2021 at 20:59:06 (+0800), kaye n wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 29, 2021 at 8:52 PM Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:
> > On Fri, Oct 29, 2021 at 08:22:15PM +0800, kaye n wrote:
> > > LXQT says,
> > >
> > > It will not get in your way. It will not hang or slow down your system.
> > >
> > > However, I've
kaye n writes:
Hi Friends!
LXQT says,
It will not get in your way. It will not hang or slow down your system.
However, I've experienced the opposite, especially when I'm using Firefox
browser and attempt to open several pages in different tabs.
I don't think the problem lies with Firefox
My experience is that Firefox, if you open too many tabs and especially
some of the very javascript heavy ones, gets bogged down quite severely
and requires restarting. It can slow the whole system down in my
experience.
--
Eric S Fraga via Emacs 28.0.60 & org 9.5 on Debian 11.1
On Fri, Oct 29, 2021 at 08:59:06PM +0800, kaye n wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 29, 2021 at 8:52 PM Andrew M.A. Cater
> wrote:
>
> > On Fri, Oct 29, 2021 at 08:22:15PM +0800, kaye n wrote:
> > > Hi Friends!
> > >
> > > LXQT says,
> > >
> > > It will not get in your way. It will not hang or slow down your s
On Fri, Oct 29, 2021 at 8:52 PM Andrew M.A. Cater
wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 29, 2021 at 08:22:15PM +0800, kaye n wrote:
> > Hi Friends!
> >
> > LXQT says,
> >
> > It will not get in your way. It will not hang or slow down your system.
> >
> > However, I've experienced the opposite, especially when I'm
On Fri, Oct 29, 2021 at 8:33 PM Dan Ritter wrote:
> kaye n wrote:
> > LXQT says,
> >
> > It will not get in your way. It will not hang or slow down your system.
> >
> > However, I've experienced the opposite, especially when I'm using Firefox
> > browser and attempt to open several pages in diffe
On Fri, Oct 29, 2021 at 08:22:15PM +0800, kaye n wrote:
> Hi Friends!
>
> LXQT says,
>
> It will not get in your way. It will not hang or slow down your system.
>
> However, I've experienced the opposite, especially when I'm using Firefox
> browser and attempt to open several pages in different
kaye n wrote:
> LXQT says,
>
> It will not get in your way. It will not hang or slow down your system.
>
> However, I've experienced the opposite, especially when I'm using Firefox
> browser and attempt to open several pages in different tabs.
That's not likely to be LXQT's fault.
Can you des
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