Before ALT-F2 -> r PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
22363 mcarter 20 0 1810m 223m 33m S 0.0 3.7 15:48.43 gnome-shell 4021 mcarter 20 0 380m 186m 2552 S 0.0 3.1 0:39.88 rdesktop 6025 mcarter 20 0 789m 100m 28m S 0.0 1.7 0:40.35 thunderbird-bin 21683 root 20 0 195m 63m 11m S 0.0 1.1 13:29.05 Xorg 22457 mcarter 20 0 890m 49m 19m S 0.0 0.8 0:02.68 tomboy 28691 mcarter 20 0 694m 44m 16m S 0.0 0.7 0:47.65 gedit 22447 mcarter 20 0 1068m 43m 22m S 0.0 0.7 0:05.01 pidgin 23724 mcarter 20 0 750m 38m 21m S 0.0 0.6 0:17.02 gmpc After ALT-F2 -> r PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 4021 mcarter 20 0 380m 186m 2552 S 0.0 3.1 0:39.93 rdesktop 6025 mcarter 20 0 789m 100m 28m S 0.0 1.7 0:40.60 thunderbird-bin 21683 root 20 0 209m 74m 11m S 0.7 1.2 13:31.77 Xorg 28955 mcarter 20 0 1336m 61m 28m S 1.0 1.0 0:02.30 gnome-shell 22457 mcarter 20 0 890m 49m 19m S 0.0 0.8 0:02.83 tomboy 28691 mcarter 20 0 694m 44m 16m S 0.0 0.7 0:47.84 gedit 22447 mcarter 20 0 1068m 43m 22m S 0.0 0.7 0:05.11 pidgin 23724 mcarter 20 0 750m 38m 21m S 0.3 0.6 0:17.32 gmpc 22455 mcarter 20 0 932m 38m 18m S 0.0 0.6 0:14.76 docky Problem remains even after gnome-shell is rebooted. start closing all the applications and it got much better. This time still not back to the original speed but still under 1sec. If I log out completely I'm good again. On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 11:50 AM, Milan Bouchet-Valat <[email protected]>wrote: > Le vendredi 24 juin 2011 à 10:29 -0400, G. Michael Carter a écrit : > > On the RAM comment. Replacing the memory would be expensive. Cheaper > > to get a new computer. I did a full memory test recently and it came > > back clean. Is there any specific test I can do? > I don't think that's a hardware issue, you'd be getting random errors, > not slowness. > > > Currently I'm in the issue. I've closed RDP and Thunderbird. > > > > > > Here's the free results: > > > > > > free -m > > total used free shared buffers > > cached > > Mem: 5982 5429 552 0 181 > > 2183 > > -/+ buffers/cache: 3063 2918 > > Swap: 10239 18 10221 > Use memory is 5429/5982, which is quite high given you have 6GB of RAM. > Something must be eating memory. > > > Top memory users are Gnome-Shell and Chrome, and chrome I only opened > > to type this message so it wasn't open when the mess started. > Can you paste the relevant output from 'top'? If you hit '<' 3 times, > you'll get the processes sorted by memory usage. > > Please restart the Shell with Alt+F2 and 'r', and have a look at 'top' > again. > > > Cheers > > > > -- * *
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