Using any swap at all, which you are, implies it's a memory pressure issue. See if you can add more memory. Also, check "top" and sort by memory use.
-- Russell Senior [email protected] On Tue, Jun 13, 2023 at 2:26 PM Dick Steffens <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm running Xubuntu 20.04. I'm experiencing longer than expected delays > from time to time. Generally, within any application, things are fine. I > don't have any issues with delays in programs like LibreOffice Writer. > It's mostly when starting an application. Sometimes it's when copying or > moving a file from one directory to another. The most recent example is > I had just finished editing an .m4a recording with Audacity. I exported > it as a .mp3 file. My default is to save files to the desktop and them > move them to the directory where I want them to live. It took nearly a > minute to move the 4.3 MB .mp3 file from the desktop to another > directory. I plan to keep the original file, but I couldn't move it > until the process of moving the .mp3 file completed. Then I could move > the .m4a file. It is also 4.3 MB, and also took nearly a minute to move. > > Another example is how long it takes some applications to load. I recall > starting up LibreOffice Writer in just a couple seconds. Now it takes > closer to 30 seconds. Top doesn't give me any useful clues as to whether > something is hogging all the processing power. > > The processor is an Intel(R) Core(TM) i3-4130 CPU @ 3.40GHz. > > free -h tells me > rsteff@ENU-1:~$ free -h > total used free shared buff/cache > available > Mem: 7.6Gi 4.6Gi 169Mi 756Mi 2.9Gi 2.0Gi > Swap: 2.0Gi 857Mi 1.2Gi > rsteff@ENU-1:~$ > > While I do have a number of applications running, I've always had a > similar number running and response in them used to be pretty quick. > > What else can I do to try to figure out what's slowing things down? > > Thanks. > > -- > Regards, > > Dick Steffens > >
