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 Posted: Wed Mar 06, 2013 7:28 pm Post subject: gentoo slows down after some time |
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Hello!
I have noticed, that my system slows down significantly when i leave it on for 2 or 3 days. It gets to the point where opening a hard drive with dolphin browser takes about 20 seconds. Mind you, I'm taking about a PC with Core i7 4x4Ghz, 8GB RAM and SSD drive. When i check CPU usage it's only a few percent, and more than 6GB of RAM is free. Where can I look for the cause? |
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niick
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My netbook's performance degrades pretty horribly when it gets too hot, your temps ok?
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| Posted: Wed Mar 06, 2013 10:01 pm Post subject: |
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| Yup, CPU does not exceed 40-45 Celsius when idle, up to 80 while compiling. |
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mv
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| Posted: Thu Mar 07, 2013 12:10 am Post subject: |
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Nevertheless, it may be that some component does (falsely) report some overheating.
I had a similar problem with my laptop, only that it slowed down already after a few minutes.
Finally, I solved the problem by setting CONFIG_ACPI_THERMAL=n (although it says that disabling this option may destroy my hardware, but I think my hardware just sent wrong data to this module).
Of course, the other thing you might consider is that some program (or the kernel) has a memory leak: Check the output of "free". |
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| Posted: Thu Mar 07, 2013 5:43 pm Post subject: |
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| I am 99,999% sure my components are not overheating. Besides, Windows works just fine. I checked 'free', but didn't find anything useful there. |
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djdunn
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| Posted: Thu Mar 07, 2013 6:01 pm Post subject: |
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well you say dolphin takes a long time, try running dolphin from a terminal emulator and see what its holdup is
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| Posted: Thu Mar 07, 2013 6:04 pm Post subject: |
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| I used dolphin just as an example - whole system slows down. After I reboot it everything is just fine for 2-3 more days. |
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