Re: [solved] Re: Web browser gets slow and blocks the system

2012-06-07 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Camaleón writes: > Glad to hear you have somehow alleviated your memory problems but > remember that when your system makes use of the swap space it usually > means that you need more physical RAM on that computer. Just keep an eye > on it ;-) I will, thanks. But for now, the most important

Re: [solved] Re: Web browser gets slow and blocks the system

2012-06-05 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 05 Jun 2012 10:18:09 +, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > On Sun, 27 May 2012 10:28:27 +, Rodolfo Medina wrote: (...) > Camaleón writes: > >> Having swap can help but in your case, with as little as 216 MB of RAM >> I don't know if that would be enough. > > > Well, the cause of the pr

[solved] Re: Web browser gets slow and blocks the system

2012-06-05 Thread Rodolfo Medina
On Sun, 27 May 2012 10:28:27 +, Rodolfo Medina wrote: >> Recently I've been having a problem with my web browser: it gets slow, >> the mouse and the keyboard don't respond any more and I have to unplug >> the machine. Can anybody suggest how I can detect why this happen and >> provide a remedy

Re: Web browser gets slow and blocks the system

2012-06-03 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 02 Jun 2012 10:58:27 -0700, Kelly Clowers wrote: > On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 1:17 PM, Camaleón wrote: (...) >> Just for you to get the idea, in my system (64-bits with 8 GiB of RAM), >> Firefox takes "99 MiB" of real memory (now 101 MiB)... go figure. > > Wow, that isn't much! I have 8GB

Re: Web browser gets slow and blocks the system

2012-06-02 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 1:17 PM, Camaleón wrote: > On Wed, 30 May 2012 18:58:23 +, Rodolfo Medina wrote: >> Rodolfo Medina writes: >> >>> Camaleón writes: > > (...) > But why didn't the problem occur before in the past?  It has become > heavy only recently, and the machine is always

Re: Web browser gets slow and blocks the system

2012-05-31 Thread Marc Shapiro
On 05/30/2012 01:17 PM, Camaleón wrote: On Wed, 30 May 2012 18:58:23 +, Rodolfo Medina wrote: Rodolfo Medina writes: Camaleón writes: (...) But why didn't the problem occur before in the past? It has become heavy only recently, and the machine is always the same. I can't tell but y

Re: Web browser gets slow and blocks the system

2012-05-30 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 30 May 2012 18:58:23 +, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > Rodolfo Medina writes: > >> Camaleón writes: (...) But why didn't the problem occur before in the past? It has become heavy only recently, and the machine is always the same. >>> >>> I can't tell but your system can't be h

Re: Web browser gets slow and blocks the system

2012-05-30 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 30 May 2012 18:34:42 +, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > Camaleón writes: > >> The "/swap" partition has to be mounted. Put here the content of your >> "/etc/ fstab". > > Effectively, swap is not in fstab: (...) > # /dev/hda5 none

Re: Web browser gets slow and blocks the system

2012-05-30 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Rodolfo Medina writes: >>> Recently I've been having a problem with my web browser: it gets slow, >>> the mouse and the keyboard don't respond any more and I have to unplug >>> the machine. Can anybody suggest how I can detect why this happen and >>> provide a remedy? > > > Camaleón writes: > >>

Re: Web browser gets slow and blocks the system

2012-05-30 Thread Rodolfo Medina
On Sun, 27 May 2012 10:28:27 +, Rodolfo Medina wrote: >> Recently I've been having a problem with my web browser: it gets slow, >> the mouse and the keyboard don't respond any more and I have to unplug >> the machine. Can anybody suggest how I can detect why this happen and >> provide a remedy

Re: Web browser gets slow and blocks the system

2012-05-30 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 30 May 2012 17:43:31 +, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > Camaleón writes: (...) >> Wow... 216 MB of ram and you have _no swap_? That's suicide... > > When I parted the hard disk, I remeber leaving about 1 gigabite swap, > and in fact here it is from `parted': > > # parted (...) > Number Sta

Re: Web browser gets slow and blocks the system

2012-05-30 Thread Rodolfo Medina
On Sun, 27 May 2012 10:28:27 +, Rodolfo Medina wrote: >> Recently I've been having a problem with my web browser: it gets slow, >> the mouse and the keyboard don't respond any more and I have to unplug >> the machine. Can anybody suggest how I can detect why this happen and >> provide a remedy

Re: Web browser gets slow and blocks the system

2012-05-30 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 30 May 2012 16:45:15 +, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > Camaleón writes: >> 1/ Have you experienced the problem when running another applications >> (different than the browser) > > No, never: it only happens with the web browser. Okay. >> 2/ Can you still login to the system when it free

Re: Web browser gets slow and blocks the system

2012-05-30 Thread Rodolfo Medina
On Sun, 27 May 2012 10:28:27 +, Rodolfo Medina wrote: >> Recently I've been having a problem with my web browser: it gets slow, >> the mouse and the keyboard don't respond any more and I have to unplug >> the machine. Can anybody suggest how I can detect why this happen and >> provide a remedy

Re: Web browser gets slow and blocks the system

2012-05-28 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 27 May 2012 14:52:43 -0700, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > On May 27, 9:30 pm, Rodolfo Medina wrote: (...) >> Unfortunately, there's nothing I can do but unplugging it off.  But the >> worse is, that also Epiphany has the same problem: so, since another PC >> of mine (a faster one) does not ha

Re: Web browser gets slow and blocks the system

2012-05-27 Thread John W. Foster
On Sun, 2012-05-27 at 23:23 +, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > On Sun, 27 May 2012 10:28:27 +, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > > Recently I've been having a problem with my web browser: it gets slow, > the mouse and the keyboard don't respond any more and I have to unplug > the machine. Ca

Re: Web browser gets slow and blocks the system

2012-05-27 Thread Rodolfo Medina
On May 27, 9:30 pm, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > On Sun, 27 May 2012 10:28:27 +, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > Recently I've been having a problem with my web browser: it gets slow, > the mouse and the keyboard don't respond any more and I have to unplug > the machine. Can anybody suggest

Re: Web browser gets slow and blocks the system

2012-05-27 Thread Rodolfo Medina
On May 27, 9:30 pm, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > On Sun, 27 May 2012 10:28:27 +, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > Recently I've been having a problem with my web browser: it gets slow, > the mouse and the keyboard don't respond any more and I have to unplug > the machine. Can anybody suggest

Re: Web browser gets slow and blocks the system

2012-05-27 Thread Rodolfo Medina
On Sun, 27 May 2012 10:28:27 +, Rodolfo Medina wrote: Recently I've been having a problem with my web browser: it gets slow, the mouse and the keyboard don't respond any more and I have to unplug the machine. Can anybody suggest how I can detect why this happen and provide

Re: Web browser gets slow and blocks the system

2012-05-27 Thread Freeman
On Sun, 27 May 2012 17:29:53 + Rodolfo Medina wrote: > Camaleón writes: > > > On Sun, 27 May 2012 10:28:27 +, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > > Err... would be of much help if you say what browser is and what > > Debian release :-). Also, does it happen with a different browser? > > > It i

Re: Web browser gets slow and blocks the system

2012-05-27 Thread Lisi
On Sunday 27 May 2012 18:29:53 Rodolfo Medina wrote: > Camaleón writes: > > On Sun, 27 May 2012 10:28:27 +, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > >> Recently I've been having a problem with my web browser: it gets slow, > >> the mouse and the keyboard don't respond any more and I have to unplug > >> the mac

Re: Web browser gets slow and blocks the system

2012-05-27 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2012-05-27 at 16:01 +, Camaleón wrote: > In the meantime, you can try with Epiphany (if running GNOME) or > Konqueror (for KDE) or http://wiki.debian.org/Opera if you don't wish to install GNOME or KDE related packages. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: Web browser gets slow and blocks the system

2012-05-27 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 27 May 2012 17:29:53 +, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > Camaleón writes: > >> On Sun, 27 May 2012 10:28:27 +, Rodolfo Medina wrote: >> >>> Recently I've been having a problem with my web browser: it gets slow, >>> the mouse and the keyboard don't respond any more and I have to unplug >>>

Re: Web browser gets slow and blocks the system

2012-05-27 Thread Ralf Mardorf
http://linux.about.com/od/softbrowser/Linux_Software_Web_Browsers.htm -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1338134398.2298.68.camel@precise

Re: Web browser gets slow and blocks the system

2012-05-27 Thread Ralf Mardorf
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_web_browsers_for_Unix_and_Unix-like_operating_systems -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1338134199.2298.67.camel@pre

Re: Web browser gets slow and blocks the system

2012-05-27 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Camaleón writes: > On Sun, 27 May 2012 10:28:27 +, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > >> Recently I've been having a problem with my web browser: it gets slow, >> the mouse and the keyboard don't respond any more and I have to unplug >> the machine. Can anybody suggest how I can detect why this happen a