[GTALUG] Ubuntu 20.04.2 is groaning

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Mon, Jun 07, 2021 at 12:56:27PM -0400, Chris Aitken via talk wrote:
> top - 12:54:52 up 6 days,  7:18,  1 user,  load average: 1.41, 1.13, 0.78
> Tasks: 218 total,   1 running, 217 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
> %Cpu(s): 28.4 us,  1.8 sy,  0.0 ni, 68.6 id,  1.2 wa,  0.0 hi,  0.0 si,  0.0
> st
> MiB Mem :   7832.9 total,    924.7 free,   2014.9 used,   4893.3 buff/cache
> MiB Swap:   2048.0 total,   1348.0 free,    700.0 used.   5388.9 avail Mem
> 
>     PID USER      PR  NI    VIRT    RES    SHR S  %CPU  %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
>    1869 owner     20   0 4176040 291112  40200 S  39.9   3.6 274:37.27
> gnome-shell
>   84930 owner     20   0 2653900 189280 114976 S  13.3   2.4 1:12.68 Web

Looks like gnome is killing your system's CPU.  Perhaps it expects 3D
hardware accaleration and you don't have that?

I stopped running gnome when version 3 came out since I could not deal
with their interface choices.

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Len Sorensen