On 05/05/2016 09:28 AM, Bill Barry wrote: > 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.
top - 09:37:44 up 25 days, 15:53, 2 users, load average: 0.80, 0.44, 0.42 Tasks: 225 total, 2 running, 223 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie %Cpu(s): 3.6 us, 4.5 sy, 0.0 ni, 91.7 id, 0.3 wa, 0.0 hi, 0.0 si, 0.0 st -- Regards, Dick Steffens _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
