[PLUG] CentOS 7 locking up...

[John Meissen]

On 9/30/19 5:46 AM, Michael C Robinson wrote:

> Any insights on why I can't walk away from firefox and expect it to be 
> useable later are going to be very much appreciated.

I don't know if this is your problem, but Firefox can be a memory hog.

Bookmarks tend to be forgotten, so when I find something interesting I 
wanted to read later I'll leave a tab or window open on the site. 
Typically I can have 6-10 tabs like that. I found that Firefox's memory 
usage would grow even just sitting there unattended until it was using 
several GB of RAM.

On a 4GB system it got to the point that I had to restart Firefox almost 
daily or I would find myself running out of swap space.

My "solution" was to build a new system with 16GB of RAM. :-/