Cristea Bogdan wrote:

When I launch some computing intensive application into background (in my case is a Matlab simulation) at the beginning I can use my computer normally (doing tasks as typing or debugging), but after several hours of usage it slows down considerably. I have an AMD64 dual core processor and Matlab uses only one core, so I don't expect to have such a behavior. Is there an explanation or a way to solve this issue?

Perhaps the memory usage of the process is increasing and eventually causing swap space to be used. 'top' will show you process memory sizes and how much swap space is in use. Cheers, Dave -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org