Questions tagged [background-task]
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How to aggressively throttle background tabs in Firefox using dom.min_background_timeout_value
What are the correct settings to aggressively throttle background tabs in Firefox?
Years ago I stumbled on this post explaining various about:config settings in Firefox for throttling background (and foreground) tabs, but I could never make sense of…
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Vertical scrolling sensitivity with the mouse wheel keeps being reset in the background. How do i figure out what is changing it?
This problem is solved temporarily by manually resetting it to 1, my desired value. I have multiple hid devices and the machine is an asus rog 14 2022 laptop with ati graphics. I am running windows 11. I use a Kensington trackball, and also an…
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Why java consumes about 3GB of memory on the background?
I am just wondering to know what this process stands for and why it consumes that much of memory consistently in my Ubuntu-22.04LTS background?
Is it possible to get ride of it or reduce it's memory consumption?
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Injecting commands into a background task
I'll try to explain as much as I can my issue. So I have an Ubuntu machine set up which I use to host my Minecraft Server. It uses Java 8. To start it, I usually use the command java -Xmx10G -jar server.jar nogui. But as I am going on vacation and…
Michigan
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Ways to to detect whether a background task is completed in Linux/BSD
I have a script that does several things, one of which depends on availability of a local mount of a remove directory. The first command in the script makes sure the remote disk is locally mounted by calling another with &. The next several things…
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