Hi, Semih Ozlem wrote: > whenever I logon and have more than a few pages in > firefox open, suddenly my memory usage (memory is 3.7 GiB as displayed by > ubuntu system monitor) is around 70 and 80 percent. If I open a few more > pages it jumps. If it reaches 100 % the computer freezes.
Well, yes, if your RAM is full and cannot be outsourced to swap storage then undesirable things happen. > I am wondering if > the issues are at all related, and if you know ways of monitoring the system > to decide whether it is just an issue of RAM being not powerful enough, If you see in dmesg output [...] BERT: Error records from previous boot: then maybe this is hardware related too. But if firefox is just eating up your memory, then only more RAM or more swap storage can help. For a quick test, you could create a swap file on disk and try whether your system gets more endurance. See e.g. https://linuxize.com/post/create-a-linux-swap-file/ If not by some colorful system monitor i would watch the load on RAM and swap by periodically executing command free -h and ignoring all its columns except the first two: "total" and "used". But as one can see from my recent posts, i am not an experienced sysadmin who knows the most thorough hardware tests. Have a nice day :) Thomas
