On 09/22/2017 02:14 PM, Dick Steffens wrote: > On 09/22/2017 02:00 PM, Rich Shepard wrote: >> On Fri, 22 Sep 2017, Dick Steffens wrote: >> >>>> What does 'top' show? >>> rsteff@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 >> _______________________________________________ >> PLUG mailing list >> PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org >> http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug >> > > 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. >
You can always try running top on the side while launching LibreOffice to watch what is happening. If no CPU spike, pay attention to the memory utilization, and you can monitor that as you restart Firefox. dafr _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
