computer slow

[Brien Dieterle]

Check your bios settings for hardware monitoring and temperature limits.
You may have it set with a maximum temperature so the machine panics when
it's just warm.

Try raising this number or disabling the feature entirely

But first check your sensors by installing a temperature monitoring program

On Oct 30, 2017 1:04 PM, "Michael" <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> it is sooo ify! I just ran it for like 10 minutes with no crashes whereas
> before I had just started the computer and ran dt for 2 minutes and it
> crashed. Then I restarted and I had a repeat performance of the 2 minute
> thing.
>
> On Mon, Oct 30, 2017 at 3:38 PM, Michael <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>  $ stress --cpu 8 --io 4 --vm 2 --vm-bytes 128M --timeout 10s
>> stress: info: [7571] dispatching hogs: 8 cpu, 4 io, 2 vm, 0 hdd
>> stress: info: [7571] successful run completed in 10s
>>
>>  I don't know what that was suppossed to tell me but there it is.
>>
>> On Mon, Oct 30, 2017 at 3:36 PM, Michael <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I am experiencing no slowness. It is like the days where you had a power
>>> switch on the back of your computer... or it is like a hard reboot.
>>>
>>> On Mon, Oct 30, 2017 at 3:33 PM, Stephen Partington <
>>> cryptworks at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> OpenCL in darktable mainly impacts rendering. it should have no effect
>>>> on on system or ram consumption unless you are experiencing slowness during
>>>> render cycles.
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Oct 30, 2017 at 12:21 PM, Michael <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> You know.... I'm having trouble running darktable. It seems that after
>>>>> I start it it runs a few minutes and then reboots the computer. Probably
>>>>> because I do not have a GPU (I don't think). Then I saw this thread and
>>>>> thought that I'd give that a try. So it seems I can not run chrome and
>>>>> darktable at the same time.
>>>>> ___
>>>>> 'lspci' shows that my graphics card is :
>>>>> 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
>>>>> [AMD/ATI] RV770 [Radeon HD 4850]
>>>>> and 'lspci|grep gpu' returned an empty set
>>>>> (if I did that correctly)
>>>>> so I suppose the cheapest way to fix this is to get a gpu.... correct?
>>>>>
>>>>> On Mon, Oct 30, 2017 at 12:09 PM, Carruth, Rusty <
>>>>> Rusty.Carruth at smartm.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> In my experience, it’s almost always Firefox taking all of memory.
>>>>>> (Or Chrome, or whatever web browser you’re using).
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I agree with Mr B, run top or htop and see what’s, well, on top ;-)
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Rusty
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
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>>>>>>
>>>>>> *From:* PLUG-discuss [mailto:plug-discuss-bounces at lists.phxlinux.org]
>>>>>> *On Behalf Of *Michael Butash
>>>>>> *Sent:* Sunday, October 29, 2017 10:05 AM
>>>>>> *To:* Main PLUG discussion list
>>>>>> *Subject:* Re: computer slow
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> If I ever have that, it's usually because of something with a memory
>>>>>> leak, or desktop graphic compositing is degrading over time.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Before you reboot, see if you can ssh into it from another computer
>>>>>> and check htop (or just top all you have), see if something is consuming
>>>>>> all your memory or cpu.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Desktop compositors are all shite from what I can tell (including
>>>>>> windoze), they're all just a varying degree of broken when you push them,
>>>>>> or just have a slow (or buggy) video card.  Depending on your desktop
>>>>>> environment of choice, try turning down graphics options, or disabling the
>>>>>> compositor all together to see if it helps stability.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> -mb
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Sun, Oct 29, 2017 at 3:41 AM, Michael <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I'm almost certain that in my bag of tricks I had instructions on
>>>>>> 'resetting' my computer when it started acting weird but I can't find them.
>>>>>> Riddle me this: I try to leave the computer on 24/7 (maybe I shouldn't do
>>>>>> that) and twice so far I come up to it and it is non-responsive or really
>>>>>> slow to respond. Anyone know how to fix this?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
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>>>>>>
>>>>>> :-)~MIKE~(-:
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>>>> --
>>>> A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from
>>>> rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button.
>>>>
>>>> Stephen
>>>>
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