computer slow

[Michael]

run this now or after stress completes?
?

On Mon, Oct 30, 2017 at 5:59 PM, Brien Dieterle <briend at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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?
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>
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>>>>>>>>>> from rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Stephen
>>>>>>>>>>
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