<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 6:30 AM, Robert P. J. Day <<a href="mailto:rpjday@crashcourse.ca">rpjday@crashcourse.ca</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> i'm not sure if this is related to my running a 2.6.34-rc7 kernel but, recently (within the last day or so), i've had my firefox session suddenly go dim/grey, and become totally unresponsive. it *appears* to be related to when it's trying to load a page, but i've never seen this behaviour before on any distro. in some cases, if i just wait, it will come back; in other cases, it's a lost cause and i have to kill firefox. in an extreme case, i had to power down the entire machine and reboot. anyone else seeing this? thoughts? -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA Linux Consulting, Training and Kernel Pedantry. Web page: <a href="http://crashcourse.ca" target="_blank">http://crashcourse.ca</a> Twitter: <a href="http://twitter.com/rpjday" target="_blank">http://twitter.com/rpjday</a> ======================================================================== -- ubuntu-users mailing list <a href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users</a> </blockquote></div> Mine does that all the time. I run System Monitor all the time and when that happens I go to the monitor and Firefox is always hogging around 300 MB of Memory and is Uninterruptable. I notice it happens more when I have Facebook open. Since Facebook is a live feed, it updates constantly and I think that's what hogs the memory. I figured it was the low memory I have on my laptop. I have less than 500 MB of Memory Pat Brown <a href="http://www.pabrown.ca">http://www.pabrown.ca</a> Award winning author of the L.A. crime novels.