On Wed, 29 Aug 2012, Bob Proulx wrote:
Bret Busby wrote:
The problem is that the computer runs out of RAM.
<snip>
The tool I like the best is 'htop'. Install it. It is nice and I
think you will like it.
# apt-get install htop
Then run it:
$ htop
Then press F6 to change the sort function. Use the up and down cursor
keys to select VIRT for sorting by size of virtual memory usage. What
programs are the top virtual memory consumers on your system? (On
mine it is usually firefox.) Based upon what those memory hogs are on
your system we can advise what action might be taken.
opera web browser.
Each window of it shows as using 14GB of virtual memory.
A problem that I (appear to) have found, is that the malware named
javascript appears to cause havoc in continually increasing usage of
RAM.
Some web sites use client-side processing, via javascript, and I regard
it as malicious, and I believe that a well written web site should not
use client-side processing, but should instead use server-side
processing.
In some web browsers that I use, I have javascript disabled, but I left
it enabled in opera.
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Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
..............
"So once you do know what the question actually is,
you'll know what the answer means."
- Deep Thought,
Chapter 28 of Book 1 of
"The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:
A Trilogy In Four Parts",
written by Douglas Adams,
published by Pan Books, 1992
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