How to clear memory?

Tue Nov 20 16:01:22 MST 2012

None of these are Linux specific, so this is pretty much off topic:

https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&ie=UTF-8#hl=en&sugexp=les%3B&gs_nf=3&tok=UuTfQRnzz1tYE-0qvsIZog&pq=firefox%20download&cp=12&gs_id=1f&xhr=t&q=firefox+performance+tweaks&pf=p&tbo=d&sclient=psy-ab&oq=firefox+perf&gs_l=&pbx=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.r_qf.&fp=be7c1c70983a1173&bpcl=38897761&ion=1&biw=1600&bih=821

On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 1:10 PM, Michael Havens <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> that doesn't sound to goo, Lisa.  could you direct me to a tutorial?
> :-)~MIKE~(-:
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> On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 10:25 AM, Lisa Kachold <lisakachold at obnosis.com>wrote:
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>> 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.
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>> On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 9:36 AM, Michael Havens <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> 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~(-:
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>>> 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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