[PLUG] Sluggish machine

Dick Steffens dick at dicksteffens.com
Fri Sep 22 21:14:29 UTC 2017


On 09/22/2017 02:00 PM, Rich Shepard wrote:
> On Fri, 22 Sep 2017, Dick Steffens wrote:
>
>>>      What does 'top' show?
>> rsteff at Enu-1:~$ top -n 1 -b > top.out
>> I notice that running top with a limit to one iteration doesn't show
>> what I usually see, which shows thunderbird, firefox, virtualbox, and
>> the other programs I'm running in the top 10 lines more often. What's
>> the best way to get the useful information you're asking for?
> Dick,
>
>     Plain ol' top, no options.
>
> Rich
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The numbers change too fast to get a snapshot of top.

I've tried John Meissen's recommendation of cycling Firefox, and it 
appears to make a difference.

-- 
Regards,

Dick Steffens




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