- To: Ben <shadroth@xxxxxxxxx>
- Subject: Re: [SLUG] Distro for fast web browsing on old machine.
- From: "James Polley" <slug@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2008 00:54:10 +1100
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It would be helpful to know more about what's causing the problems
with the distros you've tried. Is it a runaway processing chewing CPU?
Is it the browser itself chewing CPU? How is the RAM situation - is it
full (and consequently spending a lot of time swapping)? If it is -
how much is free before you start Firefox? How much is Firefox using?
A tool like sar will help a lot with this kind of analysis - but just
keeping a window open running "top" can give you a good idea as well.
On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 12:42 AM, Ben <shadroth@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Looking for a distro that does web browsing really well with the
> following specs (or a way to make Ubuntu behave).
>
> I have a Celeron ~1.6GHz machine, 512MiB RAM, 80GB HDD.
>
> Ubuntu 8.04 and now 8.10 both grind almost to a halt when Firefox is
> running. (I think 8.10 is actually worse). There is plenty of free
> memory - 200+
> Happens with one window open or with many. Other browsers are no
> better - tried Opera, same issues.
>
> CPU just hits 100% and just grinds away.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Ben
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