On Mon, Jun 7, 2021 at 11:01 AM Chris Aitken via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote: > > On 2021-06-07 1:42 p.m., Howard Gibson via talk wrote: > > On Mon, 7 Jun 2021 10:28:10 -0400 > > Chris Aitken via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote: > > > >> Hi, > >> > >> I am hoping to get some help with my Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS system. Takes me > >> 5+ seconds just to enter commands, switch between apps, etc. > > Chris, > > > > My primary machines were having problems, slowing and stopping while > > stuff ran. I fixed the problem by adding more RAM. 8GB on my desktop and > > 4GB on my laptop were not enough. 24GB and 16GB seem to be working fine. > Does this show whether more RAM would help..? > > owner@owner-HP-Compaq-8000-Elite-CMT-PC:~$ free -h > total used free shared buff/cache > available > Mem: 7.6Gi 2.5Gi 166Mi 209Mi 5.0Gi 4.7Gi > Swap: 2.0Gi 696Mi 1.3Gi >
166 MB free RAM. That might be a small problem! Find the memory hogs and that might help. Though you might want to think about more RAM. Dhaval > > > > --- > Post to this mailing list talk@gtalug.org > Unsubscribe from this mailing list https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk --- Post to this mailing list talk@gtalug.org Unsubscribe from this mailing list https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk