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.
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Among the issues I would check:
* Are any of your hard drives approaching full?
No.
* Do logs or utilities like smartctl show any disk errors?
rsteff@ENU-2:~$ sudo smartctl /dev/sda -H
smartctl 7.1 2019-12-30 r5022 [x86_64-linux-5.4.0-91-generic] (local
build)
Copyright (C) 2002-19, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke,
www.smartmontools.org
=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED
rsteff@ENU-2:~$
In dmesg.0 there is:
[ 23.270067] kernel: vboxdrv: loading out-of-tree module taints
kernel.
[ 23.270607] kernel: vboxdrv: module verification failed: signature
and/or required key missing - tainting kernel
[ 23.290284] kernel: vboxdrv: Found 2 processor cores
[ 23.307102] kernel: vboxdrv: TSC mode is Invariant, tentative
frequency 3312077717 Hz
[ 23.307104] kernel: vboxdrv: Successfully loaded version
6.1.26_Ubuntu r145957 (interface 0x00300000)
[ 23.377874] kernel: VBoxNetFlt: Successfully started.
[ 23.405243] kernel: VBoxNetAdp: Successfully started.
* Have you recently upgraded any major packages?
This OS was installed last week. I think there might be somethings set
to auto upgrade, so it's possible something was doing that. The slow
response appears to have stopped.
* Is your machine running hot?
No.
rsteff@ENU-2:~$ sensors
coretemp-isa-0000
Adapter: ISA adapter
Package id 0: +26.0°C (high = +84.0°C, crit = +100.0°C)
Core 0: +20.0°C (high = +84.0°C, crit = +100.0°C)
Core 1: +20.0°C (high = +84.0°C, crit = +100.0°C)
acpitz-acpi-0
Adapter: ACPI interface
temp1: +27.8°C (crit = +119.0°C)
temp2: +29.8°C (crit = +119.0°C)
rsteff@ENU-2:~$
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.
Before restarting, swap-used was 639 (or so). After restarting it is 0.
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Regards,
Dick Steffens
