On 10/22/2015 08:23 AM, David Wright wrote:
Quoting Marc Shapiro (marcns...@gmail.com):
On 10/20/2015 11:33 PM, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote:
Marc Shapiro wrote on 10/21/2015 06:52:
Something is not freeing up memory. It may, or may not be Firefox, but... I
can exit all programs and all instance
Quoting Reco (recovery...@gmail.com):
> Hi.
>
> On Fri, 23 Oct 2015 13:20:10 -0400
> Cindy-Sue Causey wrote:
>
> > 4 open windows with ~350 tabs open between them on 1GB memory. Again. lol =)
>
> It's possible with iceweasel/firefox. The trick is that firefox
> 'cheats' and does not load
On 2015-10-23 at 14:06, Lisi Reisz wrote:
> On Friday 23 October 2015 18:20:10 Cindy-Sue Causey wrote:
>
>> For people in my cognitive (disability type)
>
> [earlier]
>
>> 4 open windows with ~350 tabs open between them on 1GB memory.
>> Again. lol =)
>
> You claim to have cognitive disability
Hi.
On Fri, 23 Oct 2015 13:20:10 -0400
Cindy-Sue Causey wrote:
> 4 open windows with ~350 tabs open between them on 1GB memory. Again. lol =)
It's possible with iceweasel/firefox. The trick is that firefox
'cheats' and does not load inactive tabs.
So, open some tabs, close Firefox. Rins
On Friday 23 October 2015 18:20:10 Cindy-Sue Causey wrote:
> For people in my cognitive
> (disability type)
[earlier]
> 4 open windows with ~350 tabs open between them on 1GB memory. Again. lol
> =)
You claim to have cognitive disability, yet you can keep track of ~350 tabs???
I can't _see_ ~350
Le duodi 2 brumaire, an CCXXIV, Cindy-Sue Causey a écrit :
> Your statement left me confused so I just bypassed it (but kept it
> and Tomas' in mind). Five seconds later I entered that full command
> into a search engine. For others likewise confused but less bold about
> speaking up, this is o
On 10/22/15, Nicolas George wrote:
> Le primidi 1er brumaire, an CCXXIV, Marc Shapiro a écrit :
>> Google was my friend and showed me how to free up that memory ('free &&
>> sync
>> && echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches && free' as root) and all is now
>> good
>> with the world.
>
> I hope you real
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On Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 07:26:14AM -0700, Marc Shapiro wrote:
[...]
> Don Armstrong had also suggested checking the cache and buffers,
> which I had forgotten to do when I restarted [...]
To quote an old Linux saw (which just paraphrases many things
Quoting Marc Shapiro (marcns...@gmail.com):
> On 10/20/2015 11:33 PM, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote:
> >Marc Shapiro wrote on 10/21/2015 06:52:
> >
> >>Something is not freeing up memory. It may, or may not be Firefox, but...
> >>I
> >>can exit all programs and all instances of X, leaving only a singl
Le primidi 1er brumaire, an CCXXIV, Marc Shapiro a écrit :
> Google was my friend and showed me how to free up that memory ('free && sync
> && echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches && free' as root) and all is now good
> with the world.
I hope you realize this is only useful for debugging purposes.
T
On 10/20/2015 11:33 PM, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote:
Marc Shapiro wrote on 10/21/2015 06:52:
Something is not freeing up memory. It may, or may not be Firefox, but... I
can exit all programs and all instances of X, leaving only a single console
running. Top will show itself and bash, nothing els
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On 13/10/15 15:26, Marc Shapiro wrote:
> Is there a way to free that memory without having to reboot?
yep, typically when your machine goes super slow due to memory you can
always drop to a tty ps and kill the process which will bring your
machine b
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On 18/10/15 20:53, Don Armstrong wrote:
> a plugin or add-on which is buggy
I second that.
I have this issue with a bug in a thunderbird plugin, goes crazy and
eats the memory.
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On 13/10/15 15:26, Marc Shapiro wrote:
> So how do I tell what is using up the memory and not freeing it up?
> Is there a way to free that memory without having to reboot?
ps -eo pid --sort rss | tail -1 | xargs sudo strace -fp
would show what the
Marc Shapiro wrote on 10/21/2015 06:52:
> Something is not freeing up memory. It may, or may not be Firefox, but... I
> can exit all programs and all instances of X, leaving only a single console
> running. Top will show itself and bash, nothing else, but free can show over
> 2GB used. If I th
On 10/18/2015 12:53 PM, Don Armstrong wrote:
On Sat, 17 Oct 2015, Marc Shapiro wrote:
When I do have to do a reboot I close down everything to a single
console running. I then run top and it only shows bash and top. Next
time I will run top and include root and daemon processes and see if
anythi
On Sat, 17 Oct 2015, Marc Shapiro wrote:
> When I do have to do a reboot I close down everything to a single
> console running. I then run top and it only shows bash and top. Next
> time I will run top and include root and daemon processes and see if
> anything shows up. I am guessing that this is
On 10/13/2015 07:32 AM, The Wanderer wrote:
On 2015-10-13 at 10:26, Marc Shapiro wrote:
Is there a way to determine what is using up my memory? I have an
8GB system and every few days the memory usage rises to over 7 GB and
up to a GB, or more of swap is used. Granted, I have 3 X sessions
run
On Tue, 13 Oct 2015, Marc Shapiro wrote:
> Is there a way to determine what is using up my memory? I have an 8GB
> system and every few days the memory usage rises to over 7 GB and up
> to a GB, or more of swap is used. Granted, I have 3 X sessions
> running, along with 2 instances of Firefox and o
On 2015-10-13 at 10:26, Marc Shapiro wrote:
> Is there a way to determine what is using up my memory? I have an
> 8GB system and every few days the memory usage rises to over 7 GB and
> up to a GB, or more of swap is used. Granted, I have 3 X sessions
> running, along with 2 instances of Firefox
Is there a way to determine what is using up my memory? I have an 8GB
system and every few days the memory usage rises to over 7 GB and up to
a GB, or more of swap is used. Granted, I have 3 X sessions running,
along with 2 instances of Firefox and one of Chrome, not to mention up
to 3 instan
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