Yup. Might want to verify that most recent backup. On Tue, Jun 13, 2023 at 11:41 PM Ted Mittelstaedt <t...@portlandia-it.com> wrote:
> If it is a magnetic media drive that is older the drive could be suffering > end stage sector failure where the bad sector table is filled up. I've > seen it many times and it always makes the drive get very slow > > Ted > > -----Original Message----- > From: PLUG <plug-boun...@pdxlinux.org> On Behalf Of Dick Steffens > Sent: Tuesday, June 13, 2023 2:27 PM > To: PLUG List <plug@pdxlinux.org> > Subject: [PLUG] Sluggish response > > 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 > >
