Precise faults

[Roger]

>>
>> It is quite frustrating for me working on a remote server with Drupal 7
>> and the system stops mid sentence for a minute or 90 seconds as I am
>> modifying a field. Sometimes I just have to reboot to get the machine
>> running again. This does not happen with Fedora 16 on the same pc. So it
>> seems to be a Ubuntu issue in this instance.
>
> I too remote admin a Drupal site. It's firefox that is a piece of crap 
> lately, not your OS. I installed Wordpress to a box on my localnet, so 
> the connect speed is about as good as it gets. Yet, using Firefox it 
> will stall at times when I am in the Wordpress admin pages doing 
> editing. Same behavior when I'm Vtiger.
>
> So, I open Chrome and have no stall outs. I think Firefox is doing 
> something with regards to caching. I have 16 gigs of memory, yet it 
> seems to swap and stall. Ric
>
>
Ric. Thank you
You've made my day. I usually have firefox as admin and chrome as test, 
I'll swap.

Ya' Know the shame is that we can't run a number of different instances 
in the same browser, if we could I'd use Chrome as both admin and test.

As an aside, do you have any idea why localhost/site would be as slow as 
a wet week in Precise.
I have an identical copy of the live site in /var/www/site. Loading 
takes minutes and making changes is, well I could send a letter faster.
Running 'top' while loading shows it stall on apache2, I have no idea 
why, it's a vanilla install with no modifications.

thanks
Roger