Memory can be surprisingly cheap. Find out exactly what kind of memory your machine uses and what its maximum is. I use the crucial.com system to identify the make/model of the computer and it should give you a rundown of what it takes. They you can shop around for the matching specs.
I have a bunch of computers I've maxed out to like 32GB. I think the last batch I got from freegeek's online ebay store. -- Russell On Tue, Jun 13, 2023 at 5:53 PM Dick Steffens <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. :-) > > -- > Regards, > > Dick Steffens > >
