On 6/30/07, Johnny Hughes johnny@centos.org wrote:
Mark Hull-Richter wrote:
For some reason, parts of my system are now slowing down to an agonizing crawl from time to time.
I don't think you are imagining things, as I tend to see similar things.
Every time I see it though, it is firefox/seamonkey related ... and stopping and then restarting the browser has fixed the problem for me.
I haven't seen this kind of thing regularly, but the other day I was trying to do some work that involved converting a couple of relatively large (3 columns, 3500 rows) HTML tables into a spreadsheet. I tried to do this by loading each HTML document into FF, doing a "select all" and then pasting into oocalc.
This eventually did work, but when I tried to "select all" in FF it became unresponsive (watched in "top", it was consuming 95%+ of the CPU) for minutes at a time. The fist time this happened I was then able to paste into oocalc, but on the second table I had to try three times -- it would *seem* to have selected all the rows (as in, the browser finally became responsive again and showed the whole page highlighted) but the clipboard was empty (I could not paste). If it hadn't worked for the first table I wouldn't have tried as often as I did on the second one.
I'm tempted to blame this on X (more likely the libraries, but possibly something to do with the clipboard protocol) rather than on Firefox. However, I'm probably biased against Xorg because it still goes AWOL for long periods at boot time if no network is available (just this morning I resorted to installing caching-nameserver in hopes that might help).