On Thu, May 5, 2016 at 9:01 AM, Dick Steffens <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 05/05/2016 08:29 AM, Bill Barry wrote: > > On Thu, May 5, 2016 at 7:54 AM, Dick Steffens <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > >> My desktop machine used to respond quickly to the opening of a program, > >> or the return from screen saver. Now those actions are slow. The > >> programs appear to run fine. This didn't used to be the case, as > >> recently as just a few months ago. The most noticeable thing is when > >> returning from screen saver. I have two monitors, one VGA and the other > >> DVI. The VGA screen does come back quickly, but the DVI screen takes a > >> couple of seconds. And when it does, the windows that are open are blank > >> for another second before their content returns. > >> > >> Any recommendations on where to start looking for why this happens and > >> how to fix it? > >> > >> <snip> > > Try running top to see which applications are using which resources. > > VirtualBox, floats between 15% and 19% of CPU and 27% of memory. > Xorg is next with 2.3% CPU and 0.9% MEM. > The others drift up and down, sometimes moving ahead of Xorg, but always > with lowish numbers. That's while typing this email. When I start typing > in LibreOffice Writer soffice.bin moves up to number 2 with about 5% CPU > and 1.7% MEM. > > In VirtualBox I'm running Win7 which is running GearPlayer4, my USB foot > pedal controlled transcription player. I usually leave that running, > even when I'm not transcribing. I'll try shutting it down after > finishing today's work, and see if it makes any difference to the rest > of the machine. > > Thanks for the recommendation. > > -- > Regards, > > Dick Steffens > > I don't see anything there intensive enough to be causing the problems you describe. What are the load averages? Maybe it is a transient problem with the screen savers. You could disable them for a while and see if that is slowing things down. Bill _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
