computer slow

[Michael]

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.
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'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>
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> In my experience, it’s almost always Firefox taking all of memory. (Or
> Chrome, or whatever web browser you’re using).
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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
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> If I ever have that, it's usually because of something with a memory leak,
> or desktop graphic compositing is degrading over time.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> -mb
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> On Sun, Oct 29, 2017 at 3:41 AM, Michael <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> 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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