computer slow

[Michael]

Just started..... lets see what happens

On Mon, Oct 30, 2017 at 5:36 PM, Brien Dieterle <briend at gmail.com> wrote:

> Forget darktable for now.  Did you run stress test for more than 10
> seconds?
>
> This will run a stress test for 30 minutes:
>
> stress --cpu 8 --io 4 --vm 2  --hdd 2 --timeout 1800s
>
> If you can get it to crash with just this stress program, then it has
> nothing to do with darktable
>
>
> On Mon, Oct 30, 2017 at 2:24 PM, Michael <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I have no sensors running and as for it panicing when warm sometimes it
>> panics after I run dt 2 minutes after it had been shut down an hour  and
>> doesn't panic even though dt had run10 minutes.
>>
>> On Mon, Oct 30, 2017 at 4:31 PM, Brien Dieterle <briend at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Check your bios settings for hardware monitoring and temperature
>>> limits.  You may have it set with a maximum temperature so the machine
>>> panics when it's just warm.
>>>
>>> Try raising this number or disabling the feature entirely
>>>
>>> But first check your sensors by installing a temperature monitoring
>>> program
>>>
>>> On Oct 30, 2017 1:04 PM, "Michael" <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> 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 l
>>>>>>>>> ists.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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>>>>>>> from rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Stephen
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