On 11/12/2018 15.37, Per Jessen wrote:
Carlos E. R. wrote:
Now I typed a '1' to see each core load. Waiting...
top - 12:18:07 up 4 days, 10:16, 5 users, load average: 41.77, 42.35, 43.84
That's quite a busy desktop you have there.
No, that's while it is crashed. I had been iddling for 12 hours, waiting for it to crash, doing nothing. This instant: top - 20:18:47 up 4 days, 18:17, 5 users, load average: 0.05, 0.06, 0.03 Tasks: 266 total, 1 running, 265 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie %Cpu0 : 1.5 us, 0.9 sy, 0.0 ni, 97.6 id, 0.0 wa, 0.0 hi, 0.0 si, 0.0 st %Cpu1 : 1.2 us, 1.2 sy, 0.0 ni, 97.3 id, 0.0 wa, 0.0 hi, 0.3 si, 0.0 st KiB Mem : 3934240 total, 1089888 free, 2523072 used, 321280 buff/cache KiB Swap: 6289412 total, 5266360 free, 1023052 used. 1067920 avail Mem PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR SWAP S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 3164 cer 20 0 9540212 685640 51092 52352 S 0.000 17.43 9:34.60 firefox 3342 cer 20 0 2336788 643512 34268 34168 S 0.000 16.36 1:47.18 Web Content 3256 cer 20 0 2127024 432164 21292 33792 S 0.000 10.98 1:12.28 Web Content 3381 cer 20 0 1764236 75244 5808 33556 S 0.000 1.913 0:19.27 Web Content 3397 cer 20 0 1688972 28232 10860 45152 S 0.000 0.718 0:07.78 Web Content 2703 root 20 0 449644 20676 7624 15812 S 0.896 0.526 43:45.22 X 4067 cer 20 0 555912 15100 8856 2084 S 0.597 0.384 16:35.73 panel-18-weathe 4038 cer 20 0 1038948 13212 4168 20572 S 0.299 0.336 2:28.46 xfce4-terminal 4003 cer 20 0 869880 10656 876 7360 S 0.000 0.271 0:10.61 xfdesktop 4319 cer 20 0 865912 7872 3344 4908 S 0.000 0.200 1:42.28 contarcorreo 4269 cer 39 19 918436 7584 588 86772 S 0.000 0.193 0:36.22 tracker-miner-f
Tasks: 303 total, 2 running, 301 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie %Cpu0 : 0.2 us, 23.4 sy, 0.0 ni, 0.0 id, 75.0 wa, 0.0 hi, 1.4 si, 0.0 st %Cpu1 : 0.1 us, 35.7 sy, 0.0 ni, 0.0 id, 64.2 wa, 0.0 hi, 0.1 si, 0.0 st
As Berny pointed out yesterday, that system is really busy swapping.
Certainly, but why? I used the laptop, watching TV with it, till some time, then left it alone and went to sleep. In the morning, between 09:30 and 9:49, it crashed.
KiB Mem : 3934240 total, 103068 free, 3508588 used, 322584 buff/cache KiB Swap: 6289412 total, 4794296 free, 1495116 used. 21052 avail Mem
So 4Gb main memory and 1.4Gb in swap. That's quite heavy usage, for a desktop - I don't think I have any machine that comes anywhere near that. Just for comparison.
A laptop. It was "running": thunderbird, firefox, chrome. That's all. The rest, desktop compliments.
Ok, I wait for suggestions on what to do next.
Don't run so many firefox and chrome processes ? There is a Firefox setting to disable running a process per tab, for instance. WE have had to disable it because of some CSS problem. I'll see if I can find it.
I remember. The problem is not the load. CPU before this was iddling. It is something that is handlinf the load badly. Like requesting out of swap a chunk that when it runs requests some other chunk just now swapped out, alternating. Look at this machine: top - 20:24:03 up 17 days, 9:21, 1 user, load average: 0,72, 0,75, 0,63 Tasks: 575 total, 1 running, 573 sleeping, 0 stopped, 1 zombie %Cpu(s): 6,4 us, 1,9 sy, 0,0 ni, 91,3 id, 0,4 wa, 0,0 hi, 0,0 si, 0,0 st KiB Mem: 8174456 total, 6116724 used, 2057732 free, 36408 buffers KiB Swap: 25165820 total, 4700532 used, 20465288 free. 1437660 cached Mem I'm using it to write this post, it works fine. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 42.3 x86_64 "Malachite" at Telcontar)