Re: [Hampshire] Machine lock up and disk thrashing

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Author: Victor Churchill
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To: Hampshire LUG Discussion List
Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Machine lock up and disk thrashing
On 11/06/07, Vic <lug@???> wrote:
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> Firefox is always the problem for me. Kill that & the machine comes back
> to life.


"me Too!!"

There was a thread back in Jan '05 (thank you, GMail!) where Adrian suggested

Type "about:config" into the URL bar, then adjust
browser.cache.memory.capacity to some lower value (like 4096).

http://www.mozilla.org/support/firefox/tips has some cool stuff on it BTW.

Might help... but I still find that FF still grows huge and refuses to
give the memory back until you close the very last tab (or until it
crashes, whichever comes first...)