what means it that firefox keeps greying out?

[Rei Shinozuka]

I've seen it with ktorrent and digikam as well as firefox.  Often if I 
move a lot of data on a NAS that ktorrent is using to store data to, 
ktorrent will go dark temporarily, so I also came to the conclusion that 
the effect is indicative of system resources overall, and not just cpu 
or memory.

-rei


On 05/12/2010 01:40 PM, Hal Burgiss wrote:
> On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 12:32 PM, Matt Morgan<minxmertzmomo at gmail.com>  wrote:
>    
>> Does anyone know what part of the system is causing the graying out? Is it
>> Gnome, is it some Ubuntu-special? I'd like to make it stop.
>>      
> Its the system itself. When you do something in FF and it is
> triggering this, the system does not have the resources available to
> respond as it should. So it just drags the system as the system starts
> trying to make the resources available. Its kind of a tipping point
> thing, and since FF is a resource pig, it is more likely to be the
> culprit to cause this (but not the only thing). There's a lot of
> factors involved, including memory, cpu and video resources.
>
>