[Discuss] fiefox and HD thrashing

[Corey Burger]

On Dec 28, 2007 7:03 AM, pw <p.willis at telus.net> wrote:
>
> Corey Burger wrote:
> > On Dec 27, 2007 8:28 PM, pw <p.willis at telus.net> wrote:
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> Recently firefox has been causing my hard disk to start thrashing
> >> away. I can't figure out what may have changed.
> >>
> >> Has anyone had any similar problems with firefox?
> >
> > Are you running 3.0 beta?
> > Did you add a plugin?
> > Did you add an extension?
> > Did you add a new set of bookmarks?
> > Did you recently install a desktop search tool such as Beagle or Tracker?
> > Did your Firefox recently update?
> > What distro do you run?
> >
> > Corey
>
>
> Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.7) Gecko/20060802
> Mandriva/1.5.0.7-0.1.20060mdk (2006.0) Firefox/1.5.0.7

Well, you are using an outdated and no-longer supported version of
Firefox (thanks Mozilla for fucking all the enterprise Linux vendors
by dropping support for 1.5)

>
> on Mandriva 2006

on an "ancient" distro

>
> No recent updates. I don't use plug-ins or extensions.
> No new bookmarks.
>
> The HD starts thrashing and I usually need to try to
> close the  browser or open another TTY to kill the process
> to get enough response from the PC to do anything.

But that still doesn't explain this. Is it your browser that is
causing this? What does top say?

Corey