[lug] sluggish machine

Jack Swope jack.swope at comcast.net
Tue May 19 17:19:44 MDT 2009


Sounds more like a heat issue.  Check that the fan is running and that
the machine isn't hot to the touch.  Throttling the cpu is one way the
machine tries to protect itself.

Jack



On 5/19/09, John Hernandez <jph at jph.net> wrote:
> On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 4:09 PM, Davide Del Vento
> <davide.del.vento at gmail.com> wrote:
>> The obvious suspects are javascript in the large number of pages I
>> keep active in firefox (I need them, don't suggest to not use them,
>> they are almost all work related, besides gmail for chatting with
>> family and friends - maybe chrome would have been better to pinpoint
>> the guilty site, but we don't have it for linux)
>
> Maybe you can install Opera and try it for a day or two, which might
> help you isolate the issue to Firefox.
>
> -John
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