For some weeks I've been experiencing "slowness" with my Xubuntu box and
with my Linux Mint box. I know I can run top to see what programs are
using resources, but I don't really understand how to make use of that,
since there are programs I don't recognize.
Also, while typing this (on my Linux Mint box) all the entries for open
windows disappeared from the panel, and I have two error message boxes.
One says:
"Show Desktop" has quit unexpectedly.
If you reload a panel object, it will automatically be added back to the
panel.
And the other one says:
"Window List" has quit unexpectedly
If you reload a panel object, it will automatically be added back to the
panel.
Each error message has three buttons:
[Delete] [Don't Reload] [Reload]
Clicking [Reload] on the second box restored the entries on the panel.
Clicking [Reload] on the first box didn't appear to do anything.
What does all that mean?
Meanwhile, top says I have a zombie. What do I do about that?
top - 08:43:46 up 3 days, 22:55, 1 user, load average: 0.47, 0.73, 1.38
Tasks: 219 total, 2 running, 216 sleeping, 0 stopped, 1 zombie
%Cpu(s): 4.4 us, 10.5 sy, 1.6 ni, 83.3 id, 0.0 wa, 0.0 hi, 0.2 si,
0.0 st
MiB Mem : 7865.4 total, 1060.9 free, 3791.2 used, 3013.3 buff/cache
MiB Swap: 2048.0 total, 1408.5 free, 639.5 used. 3359.7 avail Mem
Sigh. Monday morning rant.
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Regards,
Dick Steffens
