computer slow

[Michael]

how long do I let glmark2's pretty horse rotate?


On Mon, Oct 30, 2017 at 6:36 PM, Michael <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> okay
> `
>
> On Mon, Oct 30, 2017 at 6:10 PM, Brien Dieterle <briend at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I'd wait.   If stress alone doesn't crash, run glmark2 by itself.  If
>> glmark2 doesn't crash, run them both at the same time.
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Oct 30, 2017 at 3:01 PM, Michael <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> run this now or after stress completes?
>>> ?
>>>
>>> On Mon, Oct 30, 2017 at 5:59 PM, Brien Dieterle <briend at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Well, not yet ;-).   If it doesn't crash, you might need to stress the
>>>> graphics card as well with one of these tools:
>>>>
>>>> https://www.pcsuggest.com/gpu-benchmarking-and-stress-testing-in-linux/
>>>>
>>>> So maybe kick off both stress and
>>>>
>>>> glmark2 --run-forever
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Oct 30, 2017 at 2:55 PM, Michael <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> if it doesn't crash I'll start hounding the darktable forums.
>>>>>
>>>>> On Mon, Oct 30, 2017 at 5:45 PM, Michael <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Just started..... lets see what happens
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Mon, Oct 30, 2017 at 5:36 PM, Brien Dieterle <briend at gmail.com>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Forget darktable for now.  Did you run stress test for more than 10
>>>>>>> seconds?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> This will run a stress test for 30 minutes:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> stress --cpu 8 --io 4 --vm 2  --hdd 2 --timeout 1800s
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> If you can get it to crash with just this stress program, then it
>>>>>>> has nothing to do with darktable
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Mon, Oct 30, 2017 at 2:24 PM, Michael <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I have no sensors running and as for it panicing when warm
>>>>>>>> sometimes it panics after I run dt 2 minutes after it had been shut down an
>>>>>>>> hour  and doesn't panic even though dt had run10 minutes.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On Mon, Oct 30, 2017 at 4:31 PM, Brien Dieterle <briend at gmail.com>
>>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> 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 ;-)
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
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>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
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>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> *From:* PLUG-discuss [mailto:plug-discuss-bounces at l
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> ists.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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>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> --
>>>>>>>>>>>>> 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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