computer slow

Mon Oct 30 12:38:44 MST 2017

 $ stress --cpu 8 --io 4 --vm 2 --vm-bytes 128M --timeout 10s
stress: info: [7571] dispatching hogs: 8 cpu, 4 io, 2 vm, 0 hdd
stress: info: [7571] successful run completed in 10s

 I don't know what that was suppossed to tell me but there it is.

On Mon, Oct 30, 2017 at 3:36 PM, Michael <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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 <cryptworks at gmail.com>
> 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 <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).
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I agree with Mr B, run top or htop and see what’s, well, on top ;-)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Rusty
>>>>
>>>>
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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
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 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 <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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>>>>
>>>> :-)~MIKE~(-:
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>>
>>
>>
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>> rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button.
>>
>> Stephen
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