On 12/12/24 05:25, Van Snyder wrote:
On Thu, 2024-12-12 at 04:33 +0800, Bret Busby wrote:
After Firefox has been running for a few days my Debian 12.5 gets really
slow. The mouse jerks when it works at all. It takes a minute or two for
wndows to close or top. At the moment, Firefox has 19 processes running.
Memory is half full, and swap is about 10% used. When I kill Firefox and
restart, things go back to normal for a few hours.
What alternatives that aren't such pigs do you recommend?
You conspicuously omit your hardware specifications; what CPU, how many
RAMs and how big is your swap partition?
Four core Intel i3 at 2287 MHz.
4 GB RAM.
"free -m" says swap is 34 GB with 6.2 GB or 18% in use at the moment.
The 'Swap" graph in GKrellM is at about 10%. Who is right?
"free -m" says 3542 MB RAM out of 3783, or 93.6% in use. The "Mem" graph
in GKrellM is at 50%.Who is right?
Top memory users are firefox-esr at 220 MB + 100 MB shared, Evolution at
170 MB with 39 MB shared, KDE plasma shell at 79 MB with 26 MB shared,
Xorg at 20 MB with 25 MB shared. The rest are in the weeds. At less than
700 MB, these don't come even close to adding up to 3542 MB. Is the rest
filled with disk cache buffers?
The symptom remains that if I kill firefox and restart it, things run a
lot faster for a few hours, and then bog down again.
I believe that 4GB of RAM is now not enough for web browsing, especially
with web browsing involving javascript.
Whether you continue to use Firefox, if you can, I suggest that you
upgrade your RAM, to as much as your motherboard will take. Whilst I do
not know what the pricing of RAM is like, now, it was, a while ago,
quite inexpensive, and, a desktop computer that I bought, with an i3
CPU, was upgraded to 32GB of RAM, as soon as I could, after buying it,
and, it has run well with that.
I have a couple of computers with 16GB of RAM, but, I use them minimally
with web browsing, and, I recommend at least 32GB RAM, for web browsing.
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Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
(UTC+0800)
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