On 7/9/19 4:34 AM, Edward Bartolo via Dng wrote:
For the information of everyone:
I would like to inform all those concerned that firefox-esr is causing
ASCII to freeze. Getting access to a terminal is almost impossible.
Yesterday, I had to power off the machine. I did not investigate why
the issue is happening as the system became extremely unresponsive.
Recalling when I used MS Windows 95/98/Millenium, this is worse than
those.
I get the same in jessie. It starts when memory use gets to around 75% or
more. It hasn't happened to me in ascii, but the box that has ascii also
has 8G ram.
Recently, I read something that said firefox will require 2-3G of memory
in the near future. We can look forward to more of this happening.
What I do when it starts to slow down is ctrl-alt-F2, log in and start
killing programs. Thunderbird is usually on that kill list, because it
takes a lot of ram, too. If I wait too long to do that, it freezes. At
some point, even sysrq keys won't work.
fsmithred
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