XO keeps staring at its own belly button

[Ixo X oxI]

External swap area sounds cool.  How does one set it up?  I'll give it a
whirl.
-iXo

On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 14:55, Andrew Burgess <elist at cichlid.com> wrote:

> 2008/8/8 Ixo X oxI <ixo at myna.ws>:
> > I should also add another case.
> >
> > I have a customized install of firefox (download tarball, alias to run
> out
> > of /home/olpc).  Sometimes when I run Firefox, and forget about the
> limited
> > memory size...  after about 6 tabs of pages, the whole systems "molasses
> > effect"... I suspect due to memory swapping madly to keep up.  Soon after
> it
> > starts to bog down, sugar kills the activity and I see a suddent speed
> > increase. :)
>
> Have you tried with a swap partition? Swap is robust now on a
> SD card, immune to suspend/resume and power cycle.
>
> I use opera with many tabs and easily get 100MB swapped out. As
> you say, it doesn't work otherwise.
>
> > I haven't tried this with the newer firefox.xo activity (with FireFox
> 3.x).
>
> 3.x is supposed to have alot of memory leaks fixed...
>
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