On 12/09/2019 15:21, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
> On Thu, 12 Sep 2019 02:07:01 +0000 (UTC), bob prohaska 
> declaimed the following:
>
>>
>> On a few occasions the machine has crashed out of X and
>> shown an out of memory error, but most of the time it
>> simply stops responding. I am using the experimental GL
>> desktop, the standard one is too slow to be useful. The
>> problem appeared a couple of months ago and shows no sign
>> of abating.
>>
>>
>  I'd recommend opening a console and running some memory monitor program
> ("top", configured to sort by memory [the default, I think, is CPU -- check
> "man top"). Check the values shown periodically, and especially when the
> system hangs.
>
>  Many graphical web browsers tend to be memory hogs.
>
Many web sites are memory hogs: Oh for basic HTML., Now its all
frameworks and json and shit like that.

My computer here slowed to a crawl. Firefox had eaten 8GB of RAM just
looking at a newspaper.

And that is WITH adblocking

>  Might also want to try configuring a small USB hard-drive with a swap
> file/partition (file is probably easier, since it doesn't require making
> partitions on the drive -- though you may want to format the drive with
> EXT3 or EXT4). You do NOT want to create a swap file on the SD card --
> swapping will kill an SD card rapidly (besides being rather slow).
>
>
Ive got a swap file on my SD card. Never gets used .



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