On 12/6/21 10:53 AM, Paul Heinlein wrote:
On Mon, 6 Dec 2021, Dick Steffens wrote:
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.
[... snip ...]
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.
Among the issues I would check:
* Are any of your hard drives approaching full?
* Do logs or utilities like smartctl show any disk errors?
* Have you recently upgraded any major packages?
* Is your machine running hot?
I'm vaguely concerned about the 639MB of swapped used. That number
sits for me somewhere between comfortable and uncomfortable. If you
reboot your machine, I'd suggest keeping an eye on your swap-used
number. Perhaps it's fine, but it's just high enough to warrant a notice.
This is the kind of information I wouldn't know anything about. One of
the great things about this list.
Thanks!
--
Regards,
Dick Steffens
