On 6/13/23 14:30, Russell Senior wrote:
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.
The biggest culprit is VirtualBoxVM, but I need it to run transcription
playback software. I haven't found any Linux tools that work with a foot
pedal for starting and stopping playback. There used to be one called
transcribe, but it disappeared a few years ago. Of course, several
others turned up when I just went looking. I'll have to experiment with
them and see if they'll do the job. The current program I use on Win7,
GearPlayer 4, has been upgraded to the point where it requires Win10.
I'm not all that interested in replacing my virtual Win7.
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
2061 rsteff 20 0 4847072 2.1g 2.1g S 15.3 27.4 1960:53
VirtualBoxVM
1656 rsteff 20 0 3587936 468764 91172 S 15.0 5.8 106:08.50
thunderbird
211291 rsteff 20 0 948480 463596 21044 S 0.0 5.8 0:27.43
gnome-software
147367 rsteff 20 0 32.8g 379524 131392 S 1.0 4.7 54:15.38
brave
255269 rsteff 20 0 1130.9g 163716 110792 S 1.3 2.0 0:02.96 brave
255117 rsteff 20 0 1130.9g 152504 109708 S 0.0 1.9 0:46.28 brave
255202 rsteff 20 0 1130.9g 145808 109784 S 0.0 1.8 0:01.47 brave
147401 rsteff 20 0 32.6g 126224 58864 S 1.0 1.6 126:21.29
brave
212269 root 20 0 4302448 113208 12160 S 1.0 1.4 71:43.79
Muse.Service
1344 rsteff 20 0 418448 85380 19460 S 0.0 1.1 3:15.55
xfce4-panel
873 root 20 0 365564 78364 52932 S 6.0 1.0 180:29.09
Xorg
253864 root 20 0 437088 78188 27232 S 0.0 1.0 0:01.38 fwupd
147403 rsteff 20 0 32.4g 76472 47904 S 0.0 1.0 11:04.62
brave
1406 rsteff 20 0 1218504 76340 26152 S 0.0 1.0 6:01.23
Thunar
147448 rsteff 20 0 1130.9g 66212 43440 S 0.0 0.8 0:07.16 brave
255382 rsteff 20 0 1130.9g 66100 50572 S 0.0 0.8 0:00.01 brave
147415 rsteff 20 0 32.4g 40088 23276 S 0.0 0.5 0:52.85 brave
148296 rsteff 20 0 32.6g 39624 26444 S 0.0 0.5 4:54.82 brave
Of course, this is a limited list, but there are a lot of brave entries
on it. But other than Thunderbird, most of these seem to be small
amounts of usage.
I'll do some more research on alternatives to GearPlayer. Assuming I
find something, I'll need to learn how to share files with my wife's
Win7 machine. I know it's possible, but I haven't put the time into it,
since I can do it between her machine and my virtual Win7 machine.
The other thing is that while it's annoying, I can live with the
problem, and life keeps happening. Tomorrow we try to go get
strawberries and then have to process them for freezing. And that's way
more interesting and important that a sluggish machine. :-)
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Regards,
Dick Steffens
