On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 11:01:35AM -0400, Ben Eisenbraun wrote:
> On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 10:41:48AM -0400, Laura Conrad wrote:
> > This has solved the problem of the screen redrawing too slowly when the
> > machine is swapping itself to death, because now X hangs well before
> > firefox has leaked memory into that state.  
> 
> If the machine is swapping, you should buy more RAM.  Changing out the
> video card or video driver is unlikely to have much effect if you're
> thrashing the swap partition.

Unless the reason it's swapping is because the video driver has a
memory leak... ;-)

That seems unlikely to be the case here though.  The most likely cause
is memory leaks in Firefox or one of its plugins... restarting firefox
may very well solve the problem without the need for more/new
hardware.

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