From: Digest To: "OS/2GenAu Digest" Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2018 00:00:32 WST-8WST,10,1,0,7200,4,1,0,7200,0 Subject: [os2genau_digest] No. 2146 Reply-To: os2genau_digest at os2site.com X-List-Unsubscribe: www.os2site.com/list/ ************************************************** Saturday 10 November 2018 Number 2146 ************************************************** Subjects for today 1 Re: Killing Firefox : Peter Calman 2 Re: Killing Firefox : Peter Moylan 3 Re: [Weasel] Killing Firefox : Peter Moylan **= Email 1 ==========================** Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2018 07:16:25 +1100 From: Peter Calman Subject: Re: Killing Firefox I dont know if this will help. Theres a file "webappsstore.sqlite" in the "Profile/xxxxxxx" folder. That file can become unbelieveably large - over 100mb To reduce its size, just delete it (with FF closed) and when FF opens up again, that file is re-created. Peter Moylan wrote: > Does anyone know which "kill" method TOP uses to kill a process? I'm > getting sick of having to hit Ctrl/Alt/Del twenty times a day whenever > Firefox has locked up the WPS, so I'm thinking of writing a utility that > would monitor Firefox and kill it whenever the Firefox CPU usage goes > above 99%. > > TOP itself is less suitable for this, because TOP can take literally > five minutes to start once Firefox is hogging 100% of the processor. > > Of course I could also go back to an earlier version of Firefox, and > just use Windows for sites (like internet banking) that insist on using > the bleeding edge features of browsers. > ----------------------------------------------- To Subscribe/Unsubscribe go to =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= This is a pulp free product. **= Email 2 ==========================** Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2018 14:51:17 +1100 From: Peter Moylan Subject: Re: Killing Firefox On 10/11/18 07:16, Peter Calman wrote: > I dont know if this will help. > > Theres a file "webappsstore.sqlite" in the "Profile/xxxxxxx" folder. > That file can become unbelieveably large - over 100mb > > To reduce its size, just delete it (with FF closed) and when FF opens up > again, that file is re-created. Thanks. I don't know whether it will affect performance, but at least I've saved myself 45 MB of disk space. -- Peter Moylan peter at pmoylan.org http://www.pmoylan.org The colour of a fireman's braces is entirely his own business. ----------------------------------------------- To Subscribe/Unsubscribe go to =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= This is a pulp free product. **= Email 3 ==========================** Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2018 17:16:53 +1100 From: Peter Moylan Subject: Re: [Weasel] Killing Firefox On 10/11/18 03:36, steve53 at earthlink.net wrote: > In <5BE5A6C6.5030507 at pmoylan.org>, on 11/10/18 at 02:24 AM, Peter > Moylan said: >> (For some reason, MemSize only reports half the processor usage >> that TOP does.) > > I guess Memsize has a different definiton of CPU utilization, > compared to top. I've just re-read the top documentation. Its reported percentages are relative to the set of all running processes, and don't take idle time into account. That makes the program less useful that it otherwise could be. I wonder how hard it would be for Paul to add an option to produce true %CPU numbers. Possibly too difficult; it would require a different way of collecting the numbers, unless there's a way to report how much CPU time the null process is taking. Memsize reports a more useful figure, but it's just a total, without a breakdown per process. In fact, it's just occurred to me that the %CPU numbers I would like would be the product of the TOP result and the Memsize result. That means that the numbers I gave for Firefox are wrong. When I said Firefox was often taking 100% of the CPU, it was actually only 50%. For whatever reason, however, that 50% was sufficient to prevent the WPS from accepting any keyboard or mouse input. Without any way to have the input recognised, all running processes (including Firefox, but not including daemons if any) were unusable. That's why I said that the only remaining options were to kill Firefox or reboot the OS. -- Peter Moylan peter at pmoylan.org http://www.pmoylan.org The colour of a fireman's braces is entirely his own business. ----------------------------------------------- To Subscribe/Unsubscribe go to =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= This is a pulp free product.