On Fri, 2024-12-13 at 06:02 +0800, Bret Busby wrote: > On 13/12/24 05:41, Bret Busby wrote: > > On 13/12/24 05:36, Van Snyder wrote: > > > On Thu, 2024-12-12 at 12:26 +0000, > > > debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote: > > > > Van Snyder <van.sny...@sbcglobal.net > > > > <mailto:van.sny...@sbcglobal.net>> 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? > > > > > > > > FF used to behave like that for me, but the current ESR release > > > > from > > > > Mozilla no longer does that. You haven't said what version of > > > > FF you're > > > > using, or anything about your hardware or software environment. > > > > So it's > > > > pretty difficult to say anything else. > > > > > > Firefox 115.140esr (64-bit) from Debian. I don't like to install > > > software from other sources because it frequently results in a > > > mess of > > > version incompatibilities. > > > > > > Intel Core i3 530 that claims to run at 2.93 GHz, but > > > /proc/cpuinfo > > > reports varying CPU clocks between 1.2 and 2.2 GHz, but all have > > > the > > > same bogomips. > > > > > > Gigabyte H55M-S2P motherboard. > > > > > > Both RAM sockets have 4 GB installed, but dmidecode says only one > > > is > > > working. Hmmm. > > > > > > > > If you install and run fastfetch, what does that show for the RAM? > > > > .. > > Bret Busby > > Armadale > > West Australia > > (UTC+0800) > > .............. > > > In checking, using the command > sudo lshw -c memory > shows what memory is in each slot > > I am wondering what that shows for your computer, and, whether that > would show the RAM card for one of your slots to be defective (by > showing the slot as empty, I presume).
Yeah, it shows Bank 0 working, and banks 1, 2, 3 empty (but that's not unexpected for banks 2 and 3 because there are no slots for them). Time to pop open the case and figure out why one RAM strip isn't working. > > .. > Bret Busby > Armadale > West Australia > (UTC+0800) > .............. >
