# Hanging on a website

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**Category:** Anthias\
**Created:** [February 17, 2020, 4:59pm UTC](https://forums.screenly.io/t/hanging-on-a-website/256 "2020-02-17T16:59:53Z")\
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**Post date:** [February 24, 2020, 1:58am UTC](https://forums.screenly.io/t/hanging-on-a-website/256/2 "2020-02-24T01:58:06Z")

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Well, I can tell you right now by testing that it is probably because it is a heavy website that uzbl (the browser screenly uses for the production version uses), you can try the experimental version and see if its any better, but also the pi hangs because this consumes too much memory, and as I recently wrote to someone else, you can fix it manually or wait for my PR to get approved and applied, here is the post where I wrote what to do to fix the memory consumption causing freezing issues:

> [@Display often hangs](https://forums.screenly.io/t/display-often-hangs/123/9):
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> @RobertE I’ve created a PR for the fixing of this with memorylimits to the viewer-service which prevents the pi from hanging/freezing which is mainly due to uzbl browser consuming a lot of resources and not doing good memory management as a process, thus we need to force a direct memory limit on the service… If you need this asap (while we wait for rusko to review the changes I’ve made) you can simply edit your service files (if you know how to SSH into the Pi or using attached keyboard and m…

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