Slow downs/clogged up something after watching FB Watch videos

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Something gets clogged up, and cause the system to slow down after watching a series of Facebook videos regardless of which browser I use.
I thought it was the browser(s), but the system remains slow after closing them out.
I have added browser cleaner extensions to each of the browsers. No help,

I have tried everything I know to ‘free up’ whatever it is, but so far nothing I have tried helps.

Any ideas? Suggestions? I hate rebooting after each browser session to get things back top normal speeds.
TIA
Bill_L

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How much RAM do you have?

How many minutes/hours is “a series of Facebook videos”?

How fast is your internet connection?

Are your browsers allowed to preload pages they predict you’ll be interested in? (e.g. in Firefox, browser.urlbar.speculativeConnect.enabled)

Does anything unexpected or using a lot of CPU remain in your running top or htop window after you’ve closed all browsers you watched videos in?

Does logging out and back in have the same effect as rebooting?

Does it help (as root or with sudo) to run

swapoff; swapon

?

Do you see any clues in journalctl or dmesg?

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Depends on the machine, desktop 1 4GB, desktop 2 8GB Laptop 4GB All of them exhibit this 'slowness/clogginess after doing those FB watch things. If I go to youtube, and watch for any length of time, it doesn’t seem to me to have that problem.

30 minutes to an hour, depend on how much time I want to spend on them.

**Very fast, in Leap 15 usually checks at 60 to 90 Mbps
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NO, IMO a waste of effort, especially with FB (I don’t use Firefox except if I absolutely have to).

Not that I am aware of, I set the chrome(ium) browsers to not allow running apps to continue after browers shutdown

Don’t know, will have to try it!

Something else I will have to try.

Not that I AM aware of, but you know I am relatively still a new user, and wouldn’t know it if it bit me on the nose.

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Well all machines seem a tad light in memory maybe you are pushing process into swap which is SLOW

run top to monitor usage and note swap usage and start of problem behavior

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  • check up if NCQ is enabled and working.
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Not sure if it is or isn’t!
And my Leap 15 is on a PATA drive if that make a difference.
Thanks Bill_L