i moved my whole system partition to another disk and everything is working well. Only hibernate didn’t work because i forgotten to create a swap partition.
Then i noticed, when i open a context menu within Firefox (i.e. right click on a bookmark item), my favorite browser suddenly hanging and gnome ask me after a couple of seconds if i want to close it because Firefox don’t respond.
Even when i rollback my whole system partition to a snapshot a few days ago (using Btrfs) the problem still occur. That mean, no software update could cause the hanging issue.
The surprising fix was to create a swap partition again. but i dont know why Firefox don’t want do work correctly without swap - i have more then 30GB free memory. Any idea?
My idea:
it has got nothing to do with swap, but rather with some firefox extension or something else within your firefox profile
Try running it in safe mode - or with a fresh profile.
Or disable extensions and then test turning them back on one by one.
I have zero experience with BTRFS.
If the issue would be related to that, your problems would likely not be with firefox only is my opinion on that.
I’ve double checked it now. I added a new user and started a new desktop session with fresh home directory and fresh Firefox profile. Same problem, hanging context menu and even pages like “about:support” don’t respond! Then i switched back to my regular user, deleted the new one and and now the problem is gone!
Everything tested without Swap. I really don’t know what happened. I am confused.
It’s never a good idea to try and run a Linux system with no swap at all, even if you have plenty of RAM. Linux likes to pre-allocate memory and if there’s no headroom, things like this happen.
Here’s what looks like a decent article on how Linux memory management works:
