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UnoSD
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 Posted: Thu Mar 14, 2013 7:10 pm Post subject: Gentoo slowing down |
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Hi everyone.
Since some week (or month) my Gentoo is often slowing incredibly down. I can't do anything. If I check the gnome-system-monitor it says that gnome-system-monitor is using 80% of my CPU and transmission-gtk 46%.
I have a Core 2 Duo T7300 so it's quiet weird. And it used to work really fine, I used to compile chromium/thunderbird/firefox while I was browsing, watching movies without any lag.
Now, when I experienced this slow down, I tried to close transmission, gnome-system-monitor and MPlayer was still unwatchable slow. Sometimes I try to free the memory (which is DDR2 2GB) with: | Code: | | # sync; echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches |
but it speed up just a bit and still, doesn't explain the CPU usage and the slowing down. I think I updated the kernel twice or three times since then, but yet nothing is changed.
Is there a way to check/understand and fix this behaviour? I really don't want to reinstall Gentoo from scratches.
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jpc22
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| Posted: Thu Mar 14, 2013 9:51 pm Post subject: |
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You could try upgrading gnome-system-monitor and transmission to higher unstable versions, and see if the problem is with the particular versions curently installed on your system.
You could also use top from command line to check top processes or conky. |
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UnoSD
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| Posted: Thu Mar 14, 2013 10:04 pm Post subject: |
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| It's not up to Transmission and gnome-system-monitor, is a system-wide thing... |
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jpc22
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| Posted: Fri Mar 15, 2013 9:42 pm Post subject: |
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| Could you check if disk usage is increasing by itself with time, maybe the bug is producing files/logs. |
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UnoSD
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| Posted: Sat Mar 16, 2013 1:03 pm Post subject: |
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| jpc22 wrote: | | Could you check if disk usage is increasing by itself with time, maybe the bug is producing files/logs. |
I can try with df or du on the tmp dir, as, everytime I restart, it goes fast again.
I notice that it might be linked to the Adobe Flash usage... As I run it, it slows down everything, really slows... But I don't know whether it happens just with because of Flash or even with other staff I didn't notice. |
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UnoSD
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| Posted: Thu Mar 21, 2013 7:14 pm Post subject: |
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| It's not just flash, it happens when I emerge stuff as well. And when I finish, it keep being really slow. |
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