[xubuntu-users] Performance problems on Xubuntu Edgy

[Radomir Dopieralski]

Dnia Sat, Mar 10, 2007 at 06:51:29PM +0100, napisale(a)s: 
> I should have seen a general slowdown due to the swapping. However,
> the Gimp should not have taken so many ressources as to make Firefox
> unavailable, and vice versa.

Well, Firefox is all nice and fast when you start it. But after a while
it starts to use more and more RAM for keeping the rendered pages. Unless
you limit its memory usage, it can easily use up all your ram.

Of course any program that would start then would be left with very little
ram for itself. Since the rendered pages are kept as X reseources, they
are technically being used all the time -- so no swapping is really
possible. This is of course a bug of the Firefox.

I think that one can limit the amount of RAM used by Firefox in the
about:config settings. Google for details.

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