When running firefox or chromium with about 5 - 10 tabs open, my system will become relatively unusable and hang in my i3 session. I'm not running a display manager, I'm simply logging into a console, then running startx which starts an i3 session. Other applications don't have this issue, so I'm thinking it is something graphically related. I see direct rendering is enabled, so at least that is a plus. I like i3 because it is very fast, lightweight, and allows me to streamline my workflow. But, if it becomes unresponsive, then it becomes a pain.



Now, the same system running firefox or chromium with again, between 5 - 10 tabs has no issues in gnome with the standard display manager, etc.





Any ideas as to what else to check? I don't see a terrible amount of disk activity when the slow down occurs in i3, but then again it doesn't refresh quickly so maybe it is still possible the drive is slow, but I'm inclined to think that my video isn't setup properly.







Thanks,



Walter