On Fri, 22 Dec 2017 10:48:13 +1030 Stephen Davies <sdavies@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > The killer apps seem to be Firefox and Thunderbird. Chrome seems OK. > > As soon as I start Firefox, performance declines and eventually stops. > > Thunderbird is fine so long as it is only doing email. But when it > starts a Javascript script to check events, performance follows the > same path as Firefox. > > Updating with dnf takes ages and also sends wait I/O through the roof. > > The server has 4 Gb memory and 500 Gb SCSI disk. Memory and swap use > generally look OK. It is just disk access that seems to be the issue. > but the disk configuration hasn't changed . > All file systems are set to be checked at boot and smartctl says that > all is OK. > > Tests with an older kernel are so far ambigious. I'm out of suggestions. One off the wall thing you could try is reinstalling those two apps. It just seems strange that they would have problems accessing the disk when other programs don't. Is their data spread all over the drive? I don't use TB but I have zero problems with firefox. I vaguely recall a version where it would get into some kind of loop and start consuming memory after a while. If I closed it and restarted, everything was sane again for a while. But that was several versions ago. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
