Justin Kremer: > I don't know of anything quite like you describe, but could you just > leave a terminal running top in the background for a while? Top uses > very small amounts of resources when left running in Linux. Or you > could make a cron job to run a script that uses ps, searches for > firefox processes and check their CPU usage...and e-mail you or > something if it gets over 20% or so. I don't pay attention to top if I leave it running all the time. By the time I notice some lag, I've probably changed 10 of my tabs to new websites and I'm not positive which one is eating using up the resources. > Conky or GKrellm might have a pretty GUI to show the same thing. But > beauty is in the eye of the beholder. > Another rather different (and possibly undesirable) option is to > temporarily switch to Chrome or Chromium and see if you still run into > resource issues. If you do, it creates a separate process for each > tab, so you can more easily isolate which tab is misbehaving. A > couple downsides are that you would have to switch browsers and > configure Chrome to your liking, and also Chrome tends to use more > resources than Firefox because of its process isolation...the very > thing that makes it desirable for debugging an issue like this. It > might be worth a shot, though. I've thought about using Chrome, but haven't installed a recent version. -- Brian Wood Ebenezer Enterprises http://webEbenezer.net -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20120724/910c30ce/attachment.html>