[PLUG] Sluggish machine

Dick Steffens dick at dicksteffens.com
Fri Sep 22 21:15:39 UTC 2017


On 09/22/2017 01:33 PM, David wrote:
> On 09/22/2017 01:24 PM, Dick Steffens wrote:
>> My machine opens programs slowly. It used to be that I'd double click on
>> a spreadsheet icon and LibreOffice would open it in at most a couple of
>> seconds. Now it takes several. What steps should I take to figure out
>> what's causing this slow down?
>>
>> The machine has 8 GB of RAM, a 1 TB hard drive with a 923.7 GB ext4
>> partition, and a 7.9 GB swap partition.
>>
> Several things you can check for. The most basic cpmmands are 'top' or
> 'htop' and look for a busy CPU, I/O wait, and memory utilization.
>
> Other things that can cause some applications to be slow and others to
> be fast are filesystem related. If you have network mounted drives and
> that connection is not responding, that can appear as a delay.
>
> Since you don't indicate that other applications are having a problem,
> this is hard to guess at, but if you open a browser or new terminal by
> double clicking their icon and it's snappy, I'd suspect filesystem issues.
>
> Of everything behaves the same, then you have a system resource issue,
> and the first commands above may shed some light.

Thanks. For now it seems as if Firefox is the culprit. I'll try cycling 
it once a day and see if that helps.

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Regards,

Dick Steffens




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