On Thu, 2020-04-23 at 08:03 -0500, Roger Heflin wrote:
On my laptop (32gb) I only get a tiny bit slow when firefox and/or chrome uses excessive memory, on my machine with 10gb it gets unusable, and often I find one of the browsers using almost all of my ram. It seems to correlate to certain web pages, and its timing seems to be rather random and often it seems to happen unattended. On the 32gb laptop when it gets slow enough that I notice I find what is using all of the ram and kill it and that clears up the issue. Excessive swap usage will cause shutdown to be really slow.
Yes, this used to happen to me with Chrome, which is why I switched to Firefox about 18 months ago. I hasn't happened since (and Chrome may have improved in the interim of course). It seemed to be related to high memory usage and/or spinning Javascript.
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