Re: riddle me this: youtube kills my usb hub

In comp.os.linux.misc, Robert Heller <heller@deepsoft.com> wrote:

Wondering: what does your memory use look like?  FF is a *memory* hog.  If
there is swaping going on, that might be what is eating power.

Weeks of uptime normally. Compiles, transcodes, watching video from
non-youtube sites: all no problem at all.

Start a video in youtube and near instantaneously the hub goes.

Firefox was restarted two days ago. Thirteen open tabs. And I'm not
swapping. mplayer I'll be using full screen, the embeded youtube
video that did it today was practically a thumbnail by comparison,
sized to fit in column of text in a news story at The Guardian. That
shouldn't be taxing at all.

I'm _not_ sold on it being a power problem.

Elijah
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doesn't like keeping many tabs open