[CentOS] browsers slowing Centos 7 installation to a crawl

> On Aug 5, 2019, at 4:12 AM, Peter <peter at pajamian.dhs.org> wrote:
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> On 5/08/19 10:42 AM, Michael Hennebry wrote:
>> Mem:        2020144     1454904       76140      204764      489100      135004
>> Swap:       4883724      978480     3905244
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> free -h is generally more readable, but...
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> It's RAM.  You basically have a total of 2G ram on the system, you have less than 500M available and are into swap by nearly 1G, so you're swapping heavily.  2G is enough for a minimal install but browsers such as firefox and chrome can easily use a lot of memory fast and trying to run one on a 2G system while doing an install at the same time will get you swapping and slow the system to a crawl.

Agreed, 2G of RAM for graphical logins and web browsers is not nearly enough.  I was using 4G on a system running C7 and it was unusable, I can’t imagine 2G.

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Jonathan Billings <billings at negate.org>