Re: [PLUG] Snappy response not so snappy anymore

One more thought about the slow response. The disk thing I mentioned likely will not show up as CPU usage or even disk usage. If there's some way to show disk access waiting-on-hardware performance of some sort then that would be the only way other than the drive light staying on during the

Re: [PLUG] Snappy response not so snappy anymore

On Fri, 6 May 2016 13:58:32 -0700, in message 572d0578.10...@speakeasy.net, Robert Munro wrote: > On Thu, 5 May 2016 15:52:04 Dick Steffens wrote: > > On 05/05/2016 10:10 AM, Neal wrote: > > >>> Do you have a tool that can show how busy the hard drive is > >>> during the seconds the system is

Re: [PLUG] Snappy response not so snappy anymore

Ideas: Uninstall Flash, see if problem persists, reinstall if you must. try a: sudo su - and then a: lsof -Pni maybe install smartmontools and try a: smartctl -a /dev/sd*X* with sd*X* being your root drive Is your drive getting full? look around in your dmesg and your syslog with: dmesg |

Re: [PLUG] Snappy response not so snappy anymore

On 05/05/2016 10:10 AM, Neal wrote: > On Thu, May 5, 2016 at 9:45 AM, Dick Steffens wrote: >> 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,

Re: [PLUG] Snappy response not so snappy anymore

On Thu, May 5, 2016 at 9:45 AM, Dick Steffens wrote: > 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

Re: [PLUG] Snappy response not so snappy anymore

On 05/05/2016 09:18 AM, chris (fool) mccraw wrote: > My primary suggestion is to check swap usage (can also be done with top, or > free). KiB Mem: 8113860 total, 7904916 used, 208944 free, 526492 buffers KiB Swap: 8255484 total, 836256 used, 7419228 free. 2771156 cached Mem > I know

Re: [PLUG] Snappy response not so snappy anymore

On 05/05/2016 09:28 AM, Bill Barry wrote: > On Thu, May 5, 2016 at 9:01 AM, Dick Steffens wrote: > >> On 05/05/2016 08:29 AM, Bill Barry wrote: >>> On Thu, May 5, 2016 at 7:54 AM, Dick Steffens >> wrote: My desktop machine used to respond

Re: [PLUG] Snappy response not so snappy anymore

On Thu, May 5, 2016 at 9:01 AM, Dick Steffens wrote: > On 05/05/2016 08:29 AM, Bill Barry wrote: > > On Thu, May 5, 2016 at 7:54 AM, Dick Steffens > wrote: > > > >> My desktop machine used to respond quickly to the opening of a program, > >> or the

Re: [PLUG] Snappy response not so snappy anymore

My primary suggestion is to check swap usage (can also be done with top, or free). I know we're not running MS Windows here, but I have yet to find a perfectly behaved browser that doesn't eventually leak memory, and if you're like me, you have a browser running for Quite Some Time between

Re: [PLUG] Snappy response not so snappy anymore

On 05/05/2016 08:29 AM, Bill Barry wrote: > On Thu, May 5, 2016 at 7:54 AM, Dick Steffens 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.

Re: [PLUG] Snappy response not so snappy anymore

On Thu, May 5, 2016 at 7:54 AM, Dick Steffens 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

[PLUG] Snappy response not so snappy anymore

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