computer slow

Mon Oct 30 14:59:28 MST 2017

Well, not yet ;-).   If it doesn't crash, you might need to stress the
graphics card as well with one of these tools:

https://www.pcsuggest.com/gpu-benchmarking-and-stress-testing-in-linux/

So maybe kick off both stress and

glmark2 --run-forever

On Mon, Oct 30, 2017 at 2:55 PM, Michael <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> if it doesn't crash I'll start hounding the darktable forums.
>
> On Mon, Oct 30, 2017 at 5:45 PM, Michael <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 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
>>>>>>>>>>> ;-)
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>
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>>>>>>>>>>>
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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?
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> --
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> :-)~MIKE~(-:
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>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> --
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>>>>>>>>> from rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Stephen
>>>>>>>>>
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