why is my desktop sluggish?

[William Muriithi]

> I have a lot of windows and tabs.
>
> Firefox is huge, lots of windows, but Resident Size is only 1.5GiB out of
> 6 GiB that the hardware has.  Nothing else is near that.
>
> Firefox is taking 50% of a core, but heck, I've got four cores.  Nothing
> else is near that.
>
> I don't think that anything is eating disk or network bandwidth.
>
I will take a guess its memory issues.  Petty hard to be CPU or I/P bound
on such a high end desktop just browsing.

You should check again if you are swapping ..
> So why is my desktop window manager laggy?  Dragging a window or creating
> a new one isn't instant.
>
> What should I be monitoring / measuring?
> --
Can use cacti to see how your I/O is doing but may be too much for desktop

William
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