Re: Memory usage Debian Jessie (stable)

2015-05-10 Thread Jan-Rens Reitsma
On 05/09/2015 03:11 PM, llcfree wrote: On Fri, 2015-05-08 at 13:31 -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: I find the biggest consumer of ram pages on my system to be the web browsers Chromium and Firefox (Iceweasel). The web has gotten to be a ram hog and when my machine is in need of memory I exit the

Re: Memory usage Debian Jessie (stable)

2015-05-10 Thread Michael
> short of memory just because browsers (and, > more generally, graphics) are blowing up without control. From the point of the browser developers, their browsers got burdened with all kind of tasks that were desktop applications in the past: Multimedia, dynamic content from multiple sources,

Re: Memory usage Debian Jessie (stable)

2015-05-10 Thread Bob Proulx
Jan-Rens Reitsma wrote: > 4 GB DDR3(L) modules are not very expensive. If my laptop had a slot to insert another dimm that would be great. I would happily stuff several more gigs into it. But I can't. My ThinkPad T60p is already max'd out at 4G. I could buy many more 4G dimms but I can't get t

Re: Memory usage Debian Jessie (stable)

2015-05-10 Thread Sreedhav Sistla
Hi there real bas, I Am posting Three URLs which "should" show what's going wrong with Firefox under the hood! Two links are from linuxquestions.org and please do not get mislead about the "topic" -"overheating",it also addresses FF's other problems.The third link contain

Re: Memory usage Debian Jessie (stable)

2015-05-10 Thread Michael
Sreedhav, Your links appear to not support the complaint. > http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-software-2/firefox-3-0-4-overheats-system-memory-and-cpu-use-inacceptable-687418/ and that one is way old (Jan 2008) > A great song by Simon & Art Garfunkel- I Am a Rock with lyrics -url:

Now that I've installed 8.0.0...

2015-05-10 Thread Dave Horsfall
What do I do now to get the GUI? It's the Acer Aspire E15 with the proprietary Atheros WiFi chip that neither 7.7 nor 7.8 would see, but 8.0 installed just fine from the "live" CD and then wireless; I could've sworn that 7 came up in the GUI afterwards. Hmmm... It's even worse: no interfaces

Re: Now that I've installed 8.0.0...

2015-05-10 Thread Bob Proulx
Dave Horsfall wrote: > What do I do now to get the GUI? It's the Acer Aspire E15 with the > proprietary Atheros WiFi chip that neither 7.7 nor 7.8 would see, but 8.0 > installed just fine from the "live" CD and then wireless; I could've sworn > that 7 came up in the GUI afterwards. > > Hmmm...