-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday, 2020-03-07 at 13:42 -0500, James Knott wrote:
Here's another capture. I see X is high again and I had a lot of disk activity.
Tasks: 263 total, 1 running, 262 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie %Cpu(s): 3.3 us, 2.9 sy, 0.0 ni, 80.6 id, 13.1 wa, 0.0 hi, 0.0 si, 0.0 st MiB Mem : 15923.24+total, 430.297 free, 14000.02+used, 1492.918 buff/cache
Notice that you have only 430 MB of free ram, which makes the kernel to try free some more. That's the inmediate cause of disk activity (swap activity). And being mechanical disk, the impact is huge.
MiB Swap: 16383.68+total, 15117.98+free, 1265.699 used. 847.727 avail Mem
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR SWAP S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 2551 root 20 0 1048948 450312 419688 6680 S 0.664 2.762 4:55.34 X 3792 jknott 20 0 11.004g 365188 311904 53712 S 25.25 2.240 329:00.40 VirtualBox
Both X and VB eat large chunk of RAM. VB is also using a large chunk of virtual memory. I do not know why your X uses so much, but it is not as much as 2 days ago.
4409 jknott 20 0 4932256 715296 298580 127832 S 1.329 4.387 21:48.76 firefox 4442 jknott 20 0 4582208 1.200g 120740 223340 S 11.63 7.716 176:10.14 seamonkey-bin
Seamonkey has 1.2 gigs, firefox 715 megs, chromium 700*7 megs. Then the several "Web Content" processes. It is your 3 browsers who are eating your ram. Restart them. Or better, exit one, and make sure you don't have them configured to automatically reload all tabs: only reload when you click on each tab.
7284 jknott 20 0 3072196 345236 115592 60796 S 1.993 2.117 14:18.84 Web Content 7542 jknott 20 0 2979808 184904 86880 9424 S 0.332 1.134 5:12.24 Web Content 7013 jknott 20 0 3052704 262532 74572 30904 S 1.661 1.610 13:18.59 Web Content 4479 jknott 20 0 846720 119936 74452 40 S 0.000 0.736 1:02.80 chromium 23761 jknott 20 0 5039640 128700 72840 0 S 0.000 0.789 0:26.27 chromium 5272 jknott 20 0 5743384 676308 70536 35212 S 0.000 4.148 3:04.28 chromium 23746 jknott 20 0 4991144 109928 70012 0 S 0.000 0.674 0:08.37 chromium 23802 jknott 20 0 4977648 88392 69756 0 S 0.000 0.542 0:00.25 chromium 5783 jknott 20 0 5020888 107856 67436 484 S 0.000 0.661 0:03.09 chromium 6898 jknott 20 0 3313052 283668 66012 13992 S 1.661 1.740 22:40.69 Web Content 7318 jknott 20 0 2723776 80460 64748 47240 S 0.000 0.493 2:12.28 Web Content 4400 jknott 20 0 1345748 228048 63328 1900 S 0.332 1.399 7:38.35 chromium 3254 jknott 20 0 3935188 202992 62452 1124 S 0.664 1.245 4:24.32 plasmashell 7458 jknott 20 0 3264376 207640 61068 69560 S 1.993 1.273 27:07.63 Web Content 5773 jknott 20 0 9347640 222528 56532 10044 S 0.000 1.365 4:21.46 chromium 5259 jknott 20 0 5073072 167636 56232 1932 S 0.332 1.028 5:02.24 chromium 6767 jknott 20 0 2916264 285972 56120 34364 S 0.000 1.754 3:08.22 Web Content 5001 jknott 20 0 5008820 91324 47660 52 S 0.000 0.560 0:16.06 chromium
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