computer slow

[Stephen Partington]

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).
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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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Stephen
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