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 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 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@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 >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> [image: SMART_HRS_RGB] >>> >>> >>> >>> Rusty Carruth | Customer Support | *rusty.carruth@smarth.com >>> * | http://www.smarth.com >>> >>> >>> >>> [image: linkedin] [image: >>> twitter] See the new M4[image: >>> cid:image004.jpg@01D348E7.AF930710] >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> See us on Storage Search http://www.storagesearch.com/smart2.html >>> >>> >>> >>> 510-624-5391 <(510)%20624-5391> | Fax: 480-926-5579 <(480)%20926-5579> >>> | 1325 N. Fiesta Blvd. Suite 101 Gilbert, Az. 85233 >>> >>> >>> >>> *From:* PLUG-discuss [mailto:plug-discuss-bounces@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 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? >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> >>> :-)~MIKE~(-: >>> >>> >>> --------------------------------------------------- >>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >>> >>> >>> >>> --------------------------------------------------- >>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> :-)~MIKE~(-: >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> > > > > -- > 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 > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > -- :-)~MIKE~(-: