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. -- Regards, Dick Steffens _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
