freezing problemes

[newbie1 (exodia)]

hi guys i am kinda new to the parrot comunity only have been using parrot os for 2month the scurity version since i am interested in cyber security and i found it so enjoyable to use but sadly i have some freezing when using it high cpu usage high ram usage in just desktop and firefox i couldn t even upgrade my systeme cause every time it frezze during the process i use a laptop with 4gb ram and i5 7200u i would be gratefull for any type of help

[Masmer (Masmer Snerd)]

I’ve seen a number of posts about this and have experienced it myself in the past. I’ll assume you are using Parrot Security 4.10 Mate and have run

sudo parrot-upgrade

Here is a thread that helped me with the freezing:

Parrot OS freezes (dual boot)

Hello guys, just found this forum, wanted to discuss a problem with my Parrot OS, if I open 10-15 tabs in my browser or do some other heavy duty task that runs smoothly on Windows 10 (its a dual boot PC) it runs out of RAM, the bar on the top of desktop shows that 100% PC is being used and Parrot OS just gets freezed. Why is it so and how can I avoid my OS from getting freezed. I have i5 processor with 8GB ram, it is a dual boot PC. Free space on my disk is 50GB. I have several softwares installed in it like Megasync, telegram app, signal app, I am using it like regular distro besides my pen testing tasks. Is it ok?

[newbie1 (exodia)]

hey bro ty for replying but the probleme is even when i try to upgrade the systeme it crush on the update and i need to restart my pc

[Santosh (Santosh Giri)]

I’m also facing the same freezing problem

[Masmer (Masmer Snerd)]

When frozen, press Ctrl-Alt-F2, wait (many) minutes for a response, log into TTY2 screen, run htop to see what is taking up all the CPU (undoubtedly Firefox), and kill the process. Press Ctrl-Alt-F7 to return to the desktop.

I just tried out an Ubuntu spin for a few weeks and it kept locking up due to Firefox and/or VMware. My older CPU couldn’t take it. A few days ago I ended up formatting the drive and installing another distro that still locks up occasionally, but not as much.