On 11/23/23 16:53, Michael Hennebry wrote:
On Thu, 23 Nov 2023, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 23, 2023 at 2:21?PM Michael Hennebry
> <hennebry(a)web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu> wrote:
>>
>> By now, I am fairly sure that the reason firefox freezes
>> on me is neither a lack of memory nor a lack of CPU.
>> My inference is that it is waiting for something.
>> How do I discover what?
>
> I would investigate the virtual memory system. That's based on your
> reply to Roger Heflin, and the 8GB of RAM and no swap file. Maybe
You mean this:
Michael Hennebry wrote (some whitespace deleted):
> $ free -h
> total used free shared buff/cache available
> Mem: 7.7Gi 4.1Gi 882Mi 572Mi 2.7Gi 2.7Gi
> Swap: 7.7Gi 98Mi 7.6Gi
> $ I have no swap partition.
?
I'd have thought 882Mi free and 2.7Gi available would be good.
BTW I have a lot of tabs, but not a lot of videos.
Mostly my tabs are things to read.
Have you checked the journal? I had this happen on a computer that
definitely wasn't low on memory and the journal had a bunch of messages
from firefox about timeouts.