How to clear memory?

[Michael Havens]

that doesn't sound to goo, Lisa.  could you direct me to a tutorial?
:-)~MIKE~(-:


On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 10:25 AM, Lisa Kachold <lisakachold at obnosis.com>wrote:

> Mike,
>
> You will need to learn to manage your plugins and 3rd party cookies.
>  Settings default will allow LivePerson and Kaseya agents (LogMeIn) to take
> full control of your system with just the click of a link.
>
> On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 9:36 AM, Michael Havens <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> it was strange.... I switched to chrome and everything was running great
>> for like a month and then everything dragged to a crawl. I then switched
>> back to firefox. A couple of weeks later I reinstalled chrome and
>> everything is running great now. I guess chromes programmers had to do
>> something.
>> :-)~MIKE~(-:
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 9:19 AM, Lisa Kachold <lisakachold at obnosis.com>wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Joe,
>>>
>>> On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 8:35 AM, <joe at actionline.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Yesterday, I tried to post this question to plug,
>>>> but it was bounced back as undeliverable.  Wonder why?
>>>>
>>>
>>> Evidently there are problems with stability at Deru?
>>> Many in PLUG over the years have offered to donate hosting, however,
>>> Hans has never agreed to it.   DeVry University provides some level of
>>> services for the BigBlueButton server at a local colocation that also might
>>> be used, as I understand it.   Moving the domain is actually quite easy
>>> since it's hosted under the .US name.
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Anyway, here it is again:
>>>>
>>>> My systems have begun to run very slowly.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Joe, we need EXACT details.  "My systems have begun to run very slowly"
>>> is not sufficient.
>>>
>>> What systems?
>>>
>>> Please send us the output of:
>>>
>>> uname -a
>>> free
>>> ps -aux
>>> dmesg [last 20 lines]
>>> tail -n 100 /var/log/messages
>>> ethtool eth0 (or whatever your net is defined as) or wlan0
>>>
>>>
>>>> Is there some way to clear memory without shutting down or logging out
>>>> and
>>>> back in?
>>>>
>>> You should never need to "clear memory".  There would never, in a linux
>>> environment be an instance where "clearing memory" would be required.
>>> If you are low on swap and your system starts paging, you can add
>>> addtional swap, but I doubt that is the issue.  We will evaluate after
>>> reading the requested info above.
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Actually, even when I log out and back in, they are still slower than
>>>> what
>>>> has been normal.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Is this more than 1 system?
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Especially Firefox has become much slower than what has been normal in
>>>> the
>>>> past.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Recommendations:
>>>
>>> Clear your browser cache regularly.
>>> Use a NoScript plugin to ensure javascript backdoors and virus are not
>>> invisibly installed.
>>> Switch to Chrome
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Also, when I tried to check plug threads today, I couldn't get the plug
>>>> website to open, though other websites seem to be working fine (albeit
>>>> slower than normal).
>>>>
>>>
>>> I believe we have determined that this was intermittent from some
>>> providers and not from others, therefore it's most probably that this was
>>> due to a Least Cost Routing issue after a change in the BGP tables, which
>>> is regularly done by big providers to take advantage of cheaper bandwidth.
>>>
>>>
>>> Of course Deru might have lost one of two dual honed upstream providers,
>>> whereupon it can take up to 24 hours for all routes to equalize and update.
>>>
>>> Since Deru hosts the DNS and was unreachable, the authoritive servers
>>> could not be reached, and mail was therefore also DROPPED for anyone in the
>>> outage zones.
>>>
>>> We should at the very least obtain free offsite secondary DNS services
>>> for the plug.phoenix.az.us DNS, which are available for free.
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