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    Linux Mint has been dragging on my desktop...

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    • DashrenderD
      Dashrender
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      So what is bottle necking? CPU? RAM? Disk IO?

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      • IRJI
        IRJ @Dashrender
        last edited by

        @Dashrender said:

        So what is bottle necking? CPU? RAM? Disk IO?

        This is kind of embarrassing, but I am not sure how to check on Linux.

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        • MattSpellerM
          MattSpeller @IRJ
          last edited by

          @IRJ said:

          @Dashrender said:

          So what is bottle necking? CPU? RAM? Disk IO?

          This is kind of embarrassing, but I am not sure how to check on Linux.

          IIRC - try running 'top'

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          • DashrenderD
            Dashrender @IRJ
            last edited by

            @IRJ said:

            @Dashrender said:

            So what is bottle necking? CPU? RAM? Disk IO?

            This is kind of embarrassing, but I am not sure how to check on Linux.

            Don't be - neither do I. I'd have to google it.

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            • scottalanmillerS
              scottalanmiller @IRJ
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              @IRJ said:

              The obvious answer is to upgrade my RAM to 16GB. Which I think will help alot or at least I hope.

              That will only help if you are swapping. I run Mint on 4GB without an issue. I do feel some issues if I am doing a ton of stuff and start to swap. It's very noticeable when it happens. But until I hit that point, it's very fast.

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              • scottalanmillerS
                scottalanmiller @IRJ
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                @IRJ said:

                @Dashrender said:

                So what is bottle necking? CPU? RAM? Disk IO?

                This is kind of embarrassing, but I am not sure how to check on Linux.

                If you have sysstat running, sar gives you great data.

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                • scottalanmillerS
                  scottalanmiller @MattSpeller
                  last edited by

                  @MattSpeller said:

                  @IRJ said:

                  @Dashrender said:

                  So what is bottle necking? CPU? RAM? Disk IO?

                  This is kind of embarrassing, but I am not sure how to check on Linux.

                  IIRC - try running 'top'

                  top is very hard for a newbie to Linux to read and very hard to share with people if they are not sitting at the console, though.

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                  • scottalanmillerS
                    scottalanmiller
                    last edited by

                    This will help as a starting point:

                    free -m
                    
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                    • MattSpellerM
                      MattSpeller @scottalanmiller
                      last edited by

                      @scottalanmiller said:

                      @MattSpeller said:

                      @IRJ said:

                      @Dashrender said:

                      So what is bottle necking? CPU? RAM? Disk IO?

                      This is kind of embarrassing, but I am not sure how to check on Linux.

                      IIRC - try running 'top'

                      top is very hard for a newbie to Linux to read and very hard to share with people if they are not sitting at the console, though.

                      As a linux newbie I liked it lol - to each their own I suppose.

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                      • scottalanmillerS
                        scottalanmiller @MattSpeller
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                        @MattSpeller said:

                        @scottalanmiller said:

                        @MattSpeller said:

                        @IRJ said:

                        @Dashrender said:

                        So what is bottle necking? CPU? RAM? Disk IO?

                        This is kind of embarrassing, but I am not sure how to check on Linux.

                        IIRC - try running 'top'

                        top is very hard for a newbie to Linux to read and very hard to share with people if they are not sitting at the console, though.

                        As a linux newbie I liked it lol - to each their own I suppose.

                        I didn't say that you would not like it... but do you know how to read the load numbers and the memory figures from it, for example? The output is not intuitive.

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