On 09/22/2017 01:34 PM, John Meissen wrote: > d...@dicksteffens.com said: >> 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? > This is usually one of two things: > memory usage > hard drive errors > > Run 'dmesg' and check the output for drive related messages.
Lots of Greek-to-me stuff. One warning that appears quite a lot is: [3411389.621045] systemd-hostnamed[19228]: Warning: nss-myhostname is not installed. Changing the local hostname might make it unresolveable. Please install nss-myhostname! I Googled nss-myhostname. The first hit was: https://askubuntu.com/questions/453072/what-is-nss-myhostname-and-why-is-it-not-installable which seems to say, "Don't worry about it." In the middle of a bunch of those, this popped up: [3839876.872551] mce: [Hardware Error]: Machine check events logged [3868978.858304] mce: [Hardware Error]: Machine check events logged > Use 'free' and 'top' (sort by memory) to see what memory usage looks like. rsteff@Enu-1:~$ free total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 8113844 5138188 2975656 19664 49444 789852 -/+ buffers/cache: 4298892 3814952 Swap: 8255484 947520 7307964 rsteff@Enu-1:~$ (As reported in my response to Rich, I'm not clear on what to look at with top.) > I don't know about other browsers, but Firefox will grow to consume enormous > amounts of memory. If you leave it running for days it can use up all of your > RAM. I typically kill it and restart it daily. :-/ That made a difference. I closed the LibreOffice files I had open, shut down Firefox, and then reopened the LibreOffice files. They opened much more quickly ... quick enough that I would not have thought about them. The programs I tend to leave running 24/7 are Thunderbird, Firefox, VirtualBox with Win 7, and Skype. I open and close LibreOffice files throughout the day, a mix of spreadsheet and writer files. And sometimes I have a gedit file open. I'll try your recommendation of regularly restarting Firefox and see if that solves this particular sluggishness issue. Thanks. -- Regards, Dick Steffens _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug