It would be helpful to know more about what's causing the problems with the distros you've tried. Is it a runaway processing chewing CPU? Is it the browser itself chewing CPU? How is the RAM situation - is it full (and consequently spending a lot of time swapping)? If it is - how much is free before you start Firefox? How much is Firefox using?
A tool like sar will help a lot with this kind of analysis - but just keeping a window open running "top" can give you a good idea as well. On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 12:42 AM, Ben <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Looking for a distro that does web browsing really well with the > following specs (or a way to make Ubuntu behave). > > I have a Celeron ~1.6GHz machine, 512MiB RAM, 80GB HDD. > > Ubuntu 8.04 and now 8.10 both grind almost to a halt when Firefox is > running. (I think 8.10 is actually worse). There is plenty of free > memory - 200+ > Happens with one window open or with many. Other browsers are no > better - tried Opera, same issues. > > CPU just hits 100% and just grinds away. > > Cheers, > > Ben > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html > -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
