On 04/10/2008 10:24 PM, paragasu wrote:
same thing happen to me. i am using debian sid.
before i do dist-upgrade a week ago. i have the same problem. FF use
97% of the CPU after i open few tabs (my laptop using 256MB + Via C3 1G
CPU)..
especially when i watch youtube.
i have to kill the process manually from the terminal because FF stop
responding and
the computer soooo slow. after upgrade FF use 15% of CPU. i don't think the
problem
solved yet. but i will know .. :P
You can restrict FF to use a limited amount of memory. Although it would
blow FF out of the water, you could do a "ulimit -Sv 200000" before
starting firefox. Do this in a script.
If FF requires more than 200MB of virtual memory, the O/S will abort it
spontaneously. Okay, I admit that that is a brute force way of dealing
with the problem, but you'd have to abort FF anyway once it has locked
up due to swapping.
I might¹ do it this way:
#!/bin/sh
ulimit -Sv 200000
firefox
In a bash terminal window, type "help ulimit" to see what ulimit does.
Good luck.
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¹ No, in reality, I would just disable flash and not watch youtube.
Indeed, I'm not watching right now :-)
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