<div dir="ltr">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.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Oct 30, 2017 at 3:38 PM, Michael <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bmike1@gmail.com" target="_blank">bmike1@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div> $ stress --cpu 8 --io 4 --vm 2 --vm-bytes 128M --timeout 10s</div><div>stress: info: [7571] dispatching hogs: 8 cpu, 4 io, 2 vm, 0 hdd</div><div>stress: info: [7571] successful run completed in 10s</div><div><br></div><div> I don't know what that was suppossed to tell me but there it is.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div><div class="h5"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Oct 30, 2017 at 3:36 PM, Michael <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bmike1@gmail.com" target="_blank">bmike1@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">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.</div><div class="m_-457335927677881440HOEnZb"><div class="m_-457335927677881440h5"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Oct 30, 2017 at 3:33 PM, Stephen Partington <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cryptworks@gmail.com" target="_blank">cryptworks@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif">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.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><span>On Mon, Oct 30, 2017 at 12:21 PM, Michael <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bmike1@gmail.com" target="_blank">bmike1@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br></span><div><div class="m_-457335927677881440m_1834143918960493567h5"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">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.<div>___</div><div>'lspci' shows that my graphics card is :</div><div><div>01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] RV770 [Radeon HD 4850]</div></div><div>and 'lspci|grep gpu' returned an empty set</div><div>(if I did that correctly)</div><div>so I suppose the cheapest way to fix this is to get a gpu.... correct?</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div><div class="m_-457335927677881440m_1834143918960493567m_49559483438068435h5"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Oct 30, 2017 at 12:09 PM, Carruth, Rusty <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Rusty.Carruth@smartm.com" target="_blank">Rusty.Carruth@smartm.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal">If I ever have that, it's usually because of something with a memory leak, or desktop graphic compositing is degrading over time.<u></u><u></u></p>
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