[PLUG] Sluggish response

Dick Steffens dick at dicksteffens.com
Tue Jun 13 21:26:33 UTC 2023


I'm running Xubuntu 20.04. I'm experiencing longer than expected delays 
from time to time. Generally, within any application, things are fine. I 
don't have any issues with delays in programs like LibreOffice Writer. 
It's mostly when starting an application. Sometimes it's when copying or 
moving a file from one directory to another. The most recent example is 
I had just finished editing an .m4a recording with Audacity. I exported 
it as a .mp3 file. My default is to save files to the desktop and them 
move them to the directory where I want them to live. It took nearly a  
minute to move the 4.3 MB .mp3 file from the desktop to another 
directory. I plan to keep the original file, but I couldn't move it 
until the process of moving the .mp3 file completed. Then I could move 
the .m4a file. It is also 4.3 MB, and also took nearly a minute to move.

Another example is how long it takes some applications to load. I recall 
starting up LibreOffice Writer in just a couple seconds. Now it takes 
closer to 30 seconds. Top doesn't give me any useful clues as to whether 
something is hogging all the processing power.

The processor is an Intel(R) Core(TM) i3-4130 CPU @ 3.40GHz.

free -h tells me
rsteff at ENU-1:~$ free -h
               total        used        free      shared buff/cache   
available
Mem:          7.6Gi       4.6Gi       169Mi       756Mi 2.9Gi       2.0Gi
Swap:         2.0Gi       857Mi       1.2Gi
rsteff at ENU-1:~$

While I do have a number of applications running, I've always had a 
similar number running and response in them used to be pretty quick.

What else can I do to try to figure out what's slowing things down?

Thanks.

-- 
Regards,

Dick Steffens



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