After a long battle with technology, Dale Farnsworth wrote:
> Michael wrote:
>> I've noticed that after about 2-3 weeks of not shutting off my computer
>> that things grind to a halt and that I need to kill Xorg. Is there
>> anything I can do?
> Most likely it's firefox that is growing and using up memory. You may
> be able to get by with restarting firefox, instead of restarting Xorg.
The top results:
32070 bmike1 15 0 138m 70m 22m S 6.9 18.7 71:11.74 firefox-bin
31577 root 5 -10 76000 24m 3084 S 1.7 6.5 22:06.00 Xorg
31475 root 16 0 2256 672 456 S 1.3 0.2 12:47.66 top
...it's firefox that's eating the most memory and CPU time here. Restarting
firefox periodically would be less annoying than restarting X periodically.
And if you only have 384M, you need to have more than 0 swap. If you don't
have a swap partition, make a swapfile of at least 512M. This will actually
improve performance as little-used stuff will get paged out and more
frequently-used stuff can remain in RAM.
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