[Novalug] FF17 update on CentOS6.3
Jay Hart
jhart@kevla.org
Sun Mar 3 09:14:51 EST 2013
I wonder if no-script could be your friend in this case????
Jay
> Thus has become a browser/website issue, with all browsers in my limited
> experience. My sites are running JavaScript or other code that is eating
> memory and CPU. Google services, streaming, news and others are guilty.
>
> I have not turned on no scripts but might do that.
> On Mar 2, 2013 11:34 PM, "Walt Smith" <waltechmail@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> I know there are several CentOS users here and I wanted
>> to relate my experience with the update from FF10
>> to FF17 the last 4 days or so:
>>
>> After running for several days with 2 windows and 30 tabs
>> on a 1Gbyte machine, it started slowing dramatically with
>> no apparent HD swap happening. A click or keyboard press
>> would result in a wait of 10-15 seconds for EACH.
>> Closing about 10 of the tabs had no speedup.
>>
>> I'd recommend not updating unless you close FF often.
>> Say once a day. Or have a lot of ram. Note the supposed
>> CPU use in TOP in a single CPU box with hyperthread.
>>
>>
>> Top after slowing, 30 tabs open:
>> PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+
>> COMMAND
>> 25116 waltech 20 0 895m 314m 33m R 100.5 31.8 1665:20
>> firefox
>> 30133 waltech 20 0 258m 72m 19m S 3.6 7.3 113:07.07
>> plugin-containe
>> 24650 root 20 0 53816 19m 10m S 2.0 1.9 426:43.24
>> Xorg
>> 30024 root 20 0 100m 26m 20m S 0.7 2.6 3:37.87
>> kppp
>> 27 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.3 0.0 3:09.64
>> ata/0
>> 5484 waltech 20 0 62516 11m 8980 S 0.3 1.1 0:00.50
>> gnome-terminal
>>
>> Top after closing FF and restarting:
>> PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+
>> COMMAND
>> 5484 waltech 20 0 62676 11m 9048 S 2.0 1.1 0:03.18
>> gnome-terminal
>> 24650 root 20 0 49932 19m 10m S 2.0 2.0 428:02.59
>> Xorg
>> 5647 waltech 20 0 2700 1124 852 R 0.7 0.1 0:00.13
>> top
>> 24897 waltech 20 0 57024 9480 7784 S 0.7 0.9 12:22.17
>> parcellite
>> 30024 root 20 0 100m 26m 20m S 0.7 2.6 3:47.07
>> kppp
>> 5534 waltech 20 0 603m 168m 33m S 0.3 17.1 1:28.63
>> firefox
>>
>>
>>
>> --
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