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On my computer after a moment of use xwindows becomes unresponsive. Can't type anything or interact at all. I checked the processes with the ps command and it once said compiz was 79% CPU. I restarted the environment and after a short while it became unresponsive. This time compiz was only 4%. Checking the memory however I was pretty much all full. PS didn't give any hint to what is using the resources. What is going on?










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  • How much memory? How much swap? free -h;swapon will tell you.

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  • @waltinator don't know what you were trying to so with the swapon command. It just gave swapon help. This is the output when my computer is starting to grind to a halt, but still responds if patient. MEM TOTAL 3.8G USED 3.7 FREE 109M SHARED 55M BUFFERS 883M CACHED 1.5G SWAP TOTAL 255M USED 616K FREE 255M

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On my computer after a moment of use xwindows becomes unresponsive. Can't type anything or interact at all. I checked the processes with the ps command and it once said compiz was 79% CPU. I restarted the environment and after a short while it became unresponsive. This time compiz was only 4%. Checking the memory however I was pretty much all full. PS didn't give any hint to what is using the resources. What is going on?










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  • How much memory? How much swap? free -h;swapon will tell you.

    – waltinator
    Jan 23 at 18:03











  • @waltinator don't know what you were trying to so with the swapon command. It just gave swapon help. This is the output when my computer is starting to grind to a halt, but still responds if patient. MEM TOTAL 3.8G USED 3.7 FREE 109M SHARED 55M BUFFERS 883M CACHED 1.5G SWAP TOTAL 255M USED 616K FREE 255M

    – Ben Yazolli
    Jan 23 at 23:50
















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On my computer after a moment of use xwindows becomes unresponsive. Can't type anything or interact at all. I checked the processes with the ps command and it once said compiz was 79% CPU. I restarted the environment and after a short while it became unresponsive. This time compiz was only 4%. Checking the memory however I was pretty much all full. PS didn't give any hint to what is using the resources. What is going on?










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On my computer after a moment of use xwindows becomes unresponsive. Can't type anything or interact at all. I checked the processes with the ps command and it once said compiz was 79% CPU. I restarted the environment and after a short while it became unresponsive. This time compiz was only 4%. Checking the memory however I was pretty much all full. PS didn't give any hint to what is using the resources. What is going on?







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  • How much memory? How much swap? free -h;swapon will tell you.

    – waltinator
    Jan 23 at 18:03











  • @waltinator don't know what you were trying to so with the swapon command. It just gave swapon help. This is the output when my computer is starting to grind to a halt, but still responds if patient. MEM TOTAL 3.8G USED 3.7 FREE 109M SHARED 55M BUFFERS 883M CACHED 1.5G SWAP TOTAL 255M USED 616K FREE 255M

    – Ben Yazolli
    Jan 23 at 23:50





















  • How much memory? How much swap? free -h;swapon will tell you.

    – waltinator
    Jan 23 at 18:03











  • @waltinator don't know what you were trying to so with the swapon command. It just gave swapon help. This is the output when my computer is starting to grind to a halt, but still responds if patient. MEM TOTAL 3.8G USED 3.7 FREE 109M SHARED 55M BUFFERS 883M CACHED 1.5G SWAP TOTAL 255M USED 616K FREE 255M

    – Ben Yazolli
    Jan 23 at 23:50



















How much memory? How much swap? free -h;swapon will tell you.

– waltinator
Jan 23 at 18:03





How much memory? How much swap? free -h;swapon will tell you.

– waltinator
Jan 23 at 18:03













@waltinator don't know what you were trying to so with the swapon command. It just gave swapon help. This is the output when my computer is starting to grind to a halt, but still responds if patient. MEM TOTAL 3.8G USED 3.7 FREE 109M SHARED 55M BUFFERS 883M CACHED 1.5G SWAP TOTAL 255M USED 616K FREE 255M

– Ben Yazolli
Jan 23 at 23:50







@waltinator don't know what you were trying to so with the swapon command. It just gave swapon help. This is the output when my computer is starting to grind to a halt, but still responds if patient. MEM TOTAL 3.8G USED 3.7 FREE 109M SHARED 55M BUFFERS 883M CACHED 1.5G SWAP TOTAL 255M USED 616K FREE 255M

– Ben Yazolli
Jan 23 at 23:50












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