[GTALUG] Ubuntu 20.04.2 is groaning

[Dhaval Giani]

On Mon, Jun 7, 2021 at 11:01 AM Chris Aitken via talk <talk at gtalug.org> wrote:
>
> 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
>

166 MB free RAM. That might be a small problem! Find the memory hogs
and that might help. Though you might want to think about more RAM.

Dhaval

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