On Mon, 2010-01-04 at 15:45 -0700, Reid Rivenburgh wrote: > On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 3:32 PM, Wayne Feick <waf@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I've been having a lot of problems with firefox periodically becoming > > unusable while it pounds away at my disk. It comes back after a while, but > > then does it again. I tried web searching and found some recommendations > > about turning off "Block reported attack sites" and "Block reported web > > forgeries" but that didn't help. > > > > Are others seeing this? Is there a solution? > > I have seen that in the past. I'm not sure what improved things for > me; maybe the two block options you mentioned. You may also want to > try cleaning up your database files, as described here: > > http://garmahis.com/tips/how-to-speed-up-firefox-by-cleaning-its-databases/ > > Of course, it could also be related to an extension you're using.... > > reid Thanks for the pointer, it was helpful. I gave it a try and got % for i in *.sqlite; do echo $i; echo "VACUUM;" | sqlite3 $i; done content-prefs.sqlite cookies.sqlite downloads.sqlite formhistory.sqlite permissions.sqlite places.sqlite Error: near line 1: database or disk is full search.sqlite signons.sqlite urlclassifier2.sqlite urlclassifier3.sqlite webappsstore.sqlite The disk is not full, so delving into places.xqlite a little further... % sqlite3 places.sqlite SQLite version 3.6.20 Enter ".help" for instructions Enter SQL statements terminated with a ";" sqlite> .databases seq name file --- --------------- ---------------------------------------------------------- 0 main /home/waf/.mozilla/firefox/da4fi9mo.default/places.sqlite sqlite> .tables moz_anno_attributes moz_favicons moz_keywords moz_annos moz_historyvisits moz_places moz_bookmarks moz_inputhistory moz_bookmarks_roots moz_items_annos sqlite> select count(*) from moz_anno_attributes; 15 sqlite> select count(*) from moz_annos; 642 sqlite> select count(*) from moz_bookmarks; 4045 sqlite> select count(*) from moz_bookmarks_roots; 5 sqlite> select count(*) from moz_favicons; 2359 sqlite> select count(*) from moz_historyvisits; 55377 sqlite> select count(*) from moz_inputhistory; 376 sqlite> select count(*) from moz_items_annos; 222 sqlite> select count(*) from moz_keywords; 5 sqlite> select count(*) from moz_places; 50409 sqlite> I'm going to see if the vacuuming makes a difference, and if not I'll try clearing my browsing history... Wayne. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
