Sometimes my laptop get stuck while working with firefox as well as some other applications.
My laptop is A Lenovo g560 with:
- CPU: Intel i5 4core
- A 1.5GB graphic card
- 8 GB RAM
My OS is Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 64bit
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What happens when the laptop 'gets stuck' ? No action at all? Thrashing drives? It it possible to log in remotely? (e.g. has only the X client crashed), ...– HennesCommented Mar 28, 2013 at 17:26
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You should have to monitor your memory usage and i am sure you are using 12.04 32 bit os so that you are only using 3.6 somthing out of your 8 GB.
Solutions
- Install 64 bit 12.04 Ubuntu
- If Firefox is latest 19 version than firefox has memory leakage problem and can be fixed by folowing steps on other post 12.10 Firefox 19 is memory hog
- Monitor your memory usage and as i am using 12.04 on core i3 4 GB ram i never GOT stuck while using firfox or other programs
See in your system monitor that if you are really using 8 GB of RAM
answered Mar 27, 2013 at 17:29
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If his PC only supports 32-bit, then how can he install 64-bit? He might get more errors then he had before.– horIzoNCommented Mar 27, 2013 at 17:32
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noway your PC is 64-bit as you have core i 5 and 8 GB RAM i am sure you have 64-bit architecture and the pc's that were manufactured before 2010 were only 32-bit but now a days you have 64-bit and as you said you have core i 5 that this is cent percent 64-bit Commented Mar 27, 2013 at 17:37
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This is taken from wikipedia: The first Core i5 using the Nehalem microarchitecture was introduced on September 8, 2009. So, this is old.– horIzoNCommented Mar 27, 2013 at 17:40
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hmm than you are not using your 8 gb ram and the simple solution is you have to see that how much memory your system is detecting ? goto menu and search system monitor and system information and tell me how much memory is detected there Commented Mar 27, 2013 at 17:43
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devloper@zamp:~$ free total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 7972412 2628992 5343420 0 237916 1396744 -/+ buffers/cache: 994332 6978080 Swap: 8180732 0 8180732– gtldspCommented Mar 28, 2013 at 17:25