It is almost certainly going to be a memory issue.
In fact earlier today Firefox made my 32G windows 11 device mostly
useless (not a complete lockup for anything but firefox, but
everything else was horribly slow).
I have had to kill firefox on multiple different websites and multiple
different m
On Mon, 27 Nov 2023, Michael Hennebry wrote:
On Sat, 25 Nov 2023, Roger Heflin wrote:
Hardware issues do not typically leave the machine up (except for
intel/amd throttling down when getting hot, but even that will crash
if it gets bad enough).install kernel-tools and run turbostat it
will
On Sat, 25 Nov 2023, Roger Heflin wrote:
Hardware issues do not typically leave the machine up (except for
intel/amd throttling down when getting hot, but even that will crash
if it gets bad enough).install kernel-tools and run turbostat it
will show the cpu freqs and cpu temps.
My CPU is
Tim:
>> So, come OS install and update times, I tend to open a box, inspect
>> heatsinks, clean it, and reseat all the connections. Having a spare
>> power supply to swap over is handy, too. They don't always age
>> well, especially the bargain basement types.
>
Joe Zeff:
> Have you ever used a
Only if freezing includes the machine crashing.If the machine is
not crashing and it recovers from the freeze without a reboot/power
cycle then we are back to memory/paging being a problem. Note I have
seen swapping act as badly. And it may only be every so often that it
runs out of ram.M
On 11/25/2023 12:08 AM, Tim via users wrote:
So, come OS install and update times, I tend to open a box, inspect
heatsinks, clean it, and reseat all the connections. Having a spare
power supply to swap over is handy, too. They don't always age well,
especially the bargain basement types.
Have
On Sat, Nov 25, 2023 at 2:08 AM Tim wrote:
>
> On Fri, 2023-11-24 at 21:02 -0500, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
> > You are having far too many problems with too many programs. The
> > common fixes are not helping.
>
> Remembering tales from long ago - how updating an OS often seemed to
> induce faults in
On Fri, 2023-11-24 at 21:02 -0500, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
> You are having far too many problems with too many programs. The
> common fixes are not helping.
Remembering tales from long ago - how updating an OS often seemed to
induce faults in hardware that was apparently working fine before.
There
On Fri, Nov 24, 2023 at 8:57 PM Michael Hennebry
wrote:
>
> chromium is freezing on me now, too.
> journalctl -r -g romium
> does not reveal any errors or warnings.
>
> --
> Michael henne...@mail.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu
> "His longhand was fairly good in his youth, but as he got older it got
> smaller
chromium is freezing on me now, too.
journalctl -r -g romium
does not reveal any errors or warnings.
--
Michael henne...@mail.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu
"His longhand was fairly good in his youth, but as he got older it got
smaller, more scribbly, and harder to read; although, like being hanged,
one can
On Thu, 23 Nov 2023, Samuel Sieb wrote:
I'm saying it wasn't a memory thing. Here are some example lines that I saw.
They were all together at the time that firefox was stuck.
rtkit-daemon[1090]: Successfully made thread 7825 of process 6769
(/usr/lib64/firefox/firefox) owned by '1000' RT at
On 11/23/23 17:37, Michael Hennebry wrote:
On Thu, 23 Nov 2023, Samuel Sieb wrote:
On 11/23/23 17:12, Michael Hennebry wrote:
On Thu, 23 Nov 2023, Samuel Sieb wrote:
Have you checked the journal? I had this happen on a computer that
definitely wasn't low on memory and the journal had a bunc
On 11/23/23 17:37, Michael Hennebry wrote:
On Thu, 23 Nov 2023, Samuel Sieb wrote:
On 11/23/23 17:12, Michael Hennebry wrote:
On Thu, 23 Nov 2023, Samuel Sieb wrote:
Have you checked the journal? I had this happen on a computer that
definitely wasn't low on memory and the journal had a bunc
On Thu, 23 Nov 2023, Samuel Sieb wrote:
On 11/23/23 17:12, Michael Hennebry wrote:
On Thu, 23 Nov 2023, Samuel Sieb wrote:
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.
On 11/23/23 17:12, Michael Hennebry wrote:
On Thu, 23 Nov 2023, Samuel Sieb wrote:
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.
journalctl and then what?
I used "jou
On Thu, 23 Nov 2023, Samuel Sieb wrote:
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.
journalctl and then what?
--
Michael henne...@mail.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu
"I was just
On 23 Nov 2023 at 18:53, Michael Hennebry wrote:
Date sent: Thu, 23 Nov 2023 18:53:41 -0600 (CST)
From: Michael Hennebry
To: noloa...@gmail.com,
Community support for Fedora users
Subject:Re: firefox keeps freezing on
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
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 s
On Thu, 23 Nov 2023, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
On Thu, Nov 23, 2023 at 2:21?PM Michael Hennebry
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
On Thu, Nov 23, 2023 at 2:21 PM Michael Hennebry
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.
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?
--
Michael henne...@mail.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu
"I was just thinking about the life of a pumpkin. Grow up in the su
On Fri, 3 Nov 2023, Joe Zeff wrote:
On 11/03/2023 11:50 AM, Michael Hennebry wrote:
210 linkedin.com
146 yahoo.com
88 yahoo.net
63 linkedin.com
Why do you have both an extension and a tab for linkedin.com, and extensions
for both yahoo.com and yahoo.net?
I have more
On Fri, 3 Nov 2023, Roger Heflin wrote:
How much ram does the machine firefox is running on have?
8 G
$ free -h
totalusedfree shared buff/cache available
Mem: 7.7Gi 4.1Gi 882Mi 572Mi 2.7Gi 2.7Gi
Swap: 7.7G
\
On Fri, Nov 3, 2023 at 12:57 PM Michael Hennebry
wrote:
>
> On Fri, 3 Nov 2023, Michael Hennebry wrote:
>
> > here are the top memory entries from about:processes:
> > 872firefox
> > 555weather.com
> > 254imasdk.googleapis.com
> > 210linkedin.com
> > 204Extensions
> > 146
On 11/03/2023 11:50 AM, Michael Hennebry wrote:
210 linkedin.com
146 yahoo.com
88 yahoo.net
63 linkedin.com
Why do you have both an extension and a tab for linkedin.com, and
extensions for both yahoo.com and yahoo.net?
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On Fri, 3 Nov 2023, Michael Hennebry wrote:
here are the top memory entries from about:processes:
872firefox
555weather.com
254imasdk.googleapis.com
210linkedin.com
204Extensions
146yahoo.com
132avrfreaks.net
116googlesyndication.com
88yahoo.net
85hackerra
here are the top memory entries from about:processes:
872firefox
555weather.com
254imasdk.googleapis.com
210linkedin.com
204Extensions
146yahoo.com
132avrfreaks.net
116googlesyndication.com
88yahoo.net
85hackerrank.com
63linkedin.com
37github.com
On Thu, 2023-11-02 at 11:21 -0500, Michael Hennebry wrote:
> Main, google and yahoo mail tabs seem to be taking the most CPU and memory,
> 20% 618MB, 0.6% 411MG and 0.18% 159MB .
> The latter two occasionally flicker to about 20% CPU.
> No smoking gun.
It's well to remember that it can be a cumula
It does seem that about:processes and about:performance seem to be same page.
So yes about:process. When I googled it pointed me to
about:performance so I have been using that without noticing that it
was an alias.
finding and killing/restarting the specific tab has been working for
me for a cou
On Thu, 2 Nov 2023, Roger Heflin wrote:
type this In the address bar: about:performance
I cannot get to about:performance .
'Tis not in the about:about list.
When I type about:performance ,
I get about:memory .
click on the memory column and sort by biggest first.
see what specific web page
On Thu, 2 Nov 2023, Joe Zeff wrote:
On 11/02/2023 02:10 PM, Michael Hennebry wrote:
With firefox frozen.
And with it closed? What I'm trying to find out is how much of that is stuff
Firefox needs to keep between sessions and how much of it is session
specific.
885M with firefox closed.
On Wed, Nov 1, 2023 at 11:12 PM Michael Hennebry
wrote:
>
> My firefox on F38 freezes a lot.
> I get "Firefox" is not responding a lot.
> At one time, I thought it was because of too many windows and tabs open.
> I closed several windows.
> Shutting it down and bringing it back up often helped,
>
On Thu, 2 Nov 2023, Joe Zeff wrote:
On 11/02/2023 02:10 PM, Michael Hennebry wrote:
With firefox frozen.
And with it closed? What I'm trying to find out is how much of that is stuff
Firefox needs to keep between sessions and how much of it is session
specific.
I'll get back to you on tha
On 11/02/2023 02:10 PM, Michael Hennebry wrote:
With firefox frozen.
And with it closed? What I'm trying to find out is how much of that is
stuff Firefox needs to keep between sessions and how much of it is
session specific.
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On Thu, 2 Nov 2023, Joe Zeff wrote:
On 11/02/2023 01:55 PM, Michael Hennebry wrote:
On Thu, 2 Nov 2023, Joe Zeff wrote:
On 11/02/2023 10:21 AM, Michael Hennebry wrote:
/dev/sda7 32G 23G 7.1G 76% /home
If I'm not mistaken, firefox puts its working files both in /tmp and in
your
On 11/02/2023 01:55 PM, Michael Hennebry wrote:
On Thu, 2 Nov 2023, Joe Zeff wrote:
On 11/02/2023 10:21 AM, Michael Hennebry wrote:
/dev/sda7 32G 23G 7.1G 76% /home
If I'm not mistaken, firefox puts its working files both in /tmp and
in your home directory. If so, that may be yo
On Thu, 2 Nov 2023, Joe Zeff wrote:
On 11/02/2023 10:21 AM, Michael Hennebry wrote:
/dev/sda7 32G 23G 7.1G 76% /home
If I'm not mistaken, firefox puts its working files both in /tmp and in your
home directory. If so, that may be your problem. Consider installing
Bleachbit and l
Thank you Joe Z, Tim and Richard E.
Firefox just starting freezing.
[hennebry@fedora ~]$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
devtmpfs4.0M 0 4.0M 0% /dev
tmpfs 3.9G 0 3.9G 0% /dev/shm
tmpfs 1.6G 1.7M 1.6G 1% /run
/dev/sda331G
yeah...!
I also had the same symptoms... it wasn't good.
firefox-118.0.2.tar.bz2
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/install-firefox-linux
I manually setup fedora38 and applied it through the link process, and it seems
to have improved,
so I'm using it well.
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On Wed, 1 Nov 2023 22:12:14 -0500 (CDT)
Michael Hennebry wrote:
> My firefox on F38 freezes a lot.
> I get "Firefox" is not responding a lot.
> At one time, I thought it was because of too many windows and tabs
> open. I closed several windows.
> Shutting it down and bringing it back up often hel
type this In the address bar: about:performance
click on the memory column and sort by biggest first.
see what specific web pages are using excessive ram (usually close to
1gb or more). click on the tab: entryh that sucks and a X will
appear on the far right, and click the X and the specific tab
On 11/02/2023 10:21 AM, Michael Hennebry wrote:
/dev/sda7 32G 23G 7.1G 76% /home
If I'm not mistaken, firefox puts its working files both in /tmp and in
your home directory. If so, that may be your problem. Consider
installing Bleachbit and letting it clean all of the cruft out.
I had firefox continually freezing (Xorg) taking the gui with it.
I then aliased firefox to:
cpulimit -i -l 200 /usr/bin/firefox "$@"
and it stopped taking the rest of the gui with it.
Recently I (had to) switched to Wayland and firefox (with the alias) has
only crashed 3 or 4 times but it has not
On Wed, 2023-11-01 at 21:24 -0600, Joe Zeff wrote:
> Firefox can be quite a memory hog, depending on what you're doing. What
> does
>
> free -h
>
> show you, as well as
>
> df
There's an about:memory page in Firefox, an about:performance, an
about:processes and a bunch of other info listed if
On 11/01/2023 09:12 PM, Michael Hennebry wrote:
My firefox on F38 freezes a lot.
I get "Firefox" is not responding a lot.
Firefox can be quite a memory hog, depending on what you're doing. What
does
free -h
show you, as well as
df
You might be running short of memory and/or disk space.
_
My firefox on F38 freezes a lot.
I get "Firefox" is not responding a lot.
At one time, I thought it was because of too many windows and tabs open.
I closed several windows.
Shutting it down and bringing it back up often helped,
but not necessarily for very long.
According to top, firefox freezes e
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