[GTALUG] Ubuntu 20.04.2 is groaning

[Chris Aitken]

On 2021-06-07 1:42 p.m., Howard Gibson via talk wrote:
> On Mon, 7 Jun 2021 10:28:10 -0400
> Chris Aitken via talk <talk at gtalug.org> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am hoping to get some help with my Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS system. Takes me
>> 5+ seconds just to enter commands, switch between apps, etc.
> Chris,
>
>     My primary machines were having problems, slowing and stopping while stuff ran.  I fixed the problem by adding more RAM.  8GB on my desktop and 4GB on my laptop were not enough.  24GB and 16GB seem to be working fine.
Does this show whether more RAM would help..?

owner at owner-HP-Compaq-8000-Elite-CMT-PC:~$ free -h
               total        used        free      shared buff/cache   
available
Mem:          7.6Gi       2.5Gi       166Mi       209Mi 5.0Gi       4.7Gi
Swap:         2.0Gi       696Mi       1.3Gi

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