computer slow

[Brien Dieterle]

Sounds more like general overheating

apt install stress
man stress

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.
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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
> > wrote:
>
>> 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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>> I agree with Mr B, run top or htop and see what’s, well, on top ;-)
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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:
>>
>> 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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