<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 11:08 PM, Lee Gold <<a href="mailto:leegold@operamail.com" target="_blank">leegold@operamail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> Using Xubuntu 11.10. When using Firefox loading pages and other apps open as well the system will begin to slow then freeze. Nothing I do other than a hard reboot w/button com PC case will help. I expect that system will slow but don't expect it to freeze. Isn't there a page/swap file that takes over when memory overwhelmed? Using p4 w/512m ram, not a new system... Is there anything I can config? Can I config apps to absolutely release memory when they are closed? Thanks. -- <a href="http://www.fastmail.fm" target="_blank">http://www.fastmail.fm</a> - Does exactly what it says on the tin -- xubuntu-users mailing list <a href="mailto:xubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">xubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-users" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-users</a> </blockquote></div> Hi. It's possible that you're running out of free space in your hard drive, so check that first.