Jim Sabatke wrote:
Basil Chupin wrote:
Jonathan Puthoff wrote:
My Dell Inspiron lappy (running freshly-installed and updated SUSE 10.1) experiences momentary freezes at seemingly random intervals. Symptoms appear as freezes of 2-4 seconds and possibly a spike in CPU> usage. Keystrokes and mouse motions made during the beginning of this period are still reflected after the lock-up terminates. Has anyone else experienced this problem? Perhaps there is a log file somewhere that yield some info? I was running SUSE 10.0 just fine, no problems. . . Are you running Firefox? My boxes often do this when i load new pages with Firefox, and it annoys the hell out of me.
Yes. Yes, I am. Constantly, too come to think of it. There is some strong correlation here.
I still don't get it, though. Maybe I will try Konquerer for a while and see if a difference makes itself apparent.
Thanks everyone!
I have been running Firefox and Thunderbird since they first appeared (way back!) on every version of SuSE since that time and I have never experienced this "freezing".
I am currently running Firefox 3.0a1 and Thunderbird 2a1, both dated 20/08/06, without a single hiccup.
So the answer to your problem(s) is not Firefox or Thunderbird.
However, I have to add this: I have never run FF or TB which come as part of the SuSE installation- I always install FF and TB from the Mozilla site itself (the nightly builds, to be specific).
Cheers.
Still could be Firefox or Thunderbird. Slashdot has reported numerous times on the memory leaks that the Mozilla folks admit to. I have learned to recognize the symptoms of impending thrashing and kill both programs. If I don't, it can take (quite literally) hours to bring one of them to the front and kill them without resorting to the ctrl-alt-esc solution. If I'm running basically just those two programs, there seems to be a point at about 280MB of swap memory where the response curve goes bad seemingly exponentially.
I know many of you don't have this problem, but it does occur and is probably explained by different web sites or media types used.
Well, I am not sure if Mozilla folk actually admit to having or causing the problem but I have just gone "fishing" in the Mozilla Forums and my reading of things is that the main cause of "freezing" or slowing down is Javascript used on websites. The Javacript cause massive memory usage leaving little for anything else, and if you have only a small amount of RAM then..... :-( . Also, it seems that using Google Toolbar causes a problem (there is something in it that needs switching off, or something :-) ). Re the problem caused by Javascript it appears that many commercial sites use 3rd party provided Javascripted inserts which are not necessary for the proper functioning of the website. There is an extension available for FF called NoScript which allows "you", the user, to configure FF to either accept such script(s) or not. This is also an additional security layer for FF. The extension can be obtained at: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/722/ (And there is also a browser which incorporates this extension into the browser itself and this browser can be obtained at: http://www.noscript.net/whats ) This is my interpretation of what is stated in the bits of the forum I read so it would be up to "you" to check out my conclusions by reading the complaints and the responses to them in the forum(s). Go to http://forums.mozillazine.org and do a search for "memory leak" in the Forums and/or the Knowledgebase (righthand side of screen). If anyone wants to read about memory leakages and how to avoid this, and about why Firefox may be prone to hanging then here are the URLs to check out: http://kb.mozillazine.org/Reducing_memory_usage_-_Firefox and http://kb.mozillazine.org/Firefox_hangs Cheers. --