On Sat, Sep 26, 2020 at 04:11:33PM -0700, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > FC 32, x64 > Ext4 > Xfce 4.14 > > Occasionally, my computers slows down. I have not been > able to pin down why. Top shows very little memory usage. > > A 1 hour, 12 minute dump (dump/restore) takes 15 hours > when this happens. Pop up menus start to lag behind > the mouse > > I am trying to get around the reboot thing. > > -T > > A reboot ALWAYS fixes the issue. Brendan Gregg has written several good talks and documents about various Linux performance measurement tools. You might want to see what the kernel is doing when you see sluggish behavior. http://brendangregg.com/linuxperf.html It does require some deep spelunking into the kernel internals, but it is actually quite amazing what the kernel has for monitoring its activities. I use it quite often to debug filesystem behavior, just poke around /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/. https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v5.8/trace/events.html >From my experience, as an end user providing feedback, the kernel developers really like it when you can point out a particular syscall from the trace output that is misbehaving. -- Jonathan Billings <billings@xxxxxxxxxx> _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx