computer slow

Mon Oct 30 13:04:24 MST 2017

it is sooo ify! I just ran it for like 10 minutes with no crashes whereas
before I had just started the computer and ran dt for 2 minutes and it
crashed. Then I restarted and I had a repeat performance of the 2 minute
thing.

On Mon, Oct 30, 2017 at 3:38 PM, Michael <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:

>  $ 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?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>>
>>>>> :-)~MIKE~(-:
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>>>
>>> Stephen
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