Hi all,
My laptop is very slow now a days. When I see the system information > Memory it is showing that the ram is utilized up to 97%. Could someone please help me to solve this problem? Because of this high utilization my laptop is hanging very much, now and then.
Output of uname -r
$ uname -r
5.7.15-1-MANJARO
My RAM’s capacity is 4GiB.
Thanks
You make this sound like it is not a new installation?
Since you are viewing processes … what is using the RAM ?
(PS - another way to check: sudo ps_mem)
Output from inxi -Fazy
$ inxi -Fazy
System:
Kernel: 5.7.15-1-MANJARO x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 10.1.0
parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.7-x86_64
root=UUID=e4e5b686-9bb6-4b8c-a0b5-98cf00dbd45c rw quiet apparmor=1
security=apparmor udev.log_priority=3
Desktop: KDE Plasma 5.19.4 tk: Qt 5.15.0 wm: kwin_x11 dm: SDDM
Distro: Manjaro Linux
Machine:
Type: Laptop System: Hewlett-Packard product: HP Pavilion g6 Notebook PC
v: 0792100000205610000610100 serial: <filter> Chassis: type: 10
serial: <filter>
Mobo: Hewlett-Packard model: 183E v: 56.32 serial: <filter> UEFI: Insyde
v: F.25 date: 05/29/2013
Battery:
ID-1: BAT0 charge: 24.2 Wh condition: 25.9/25.9 Wh (100%) volts: 12.5/10.8
model: Hewlett-Packard Primary type: Li-ion serial: N/A status: Charging
CPU:
Topology: Dual Core model: Intel Core i5-3210M bits: 64 type: MT MCP
arch: Ivy Bridge family: 6 model-id: 3A (58) stepping: 9 microcode: 21
L2 cache: 3072 KiB
flags: avx lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 bogomips: 19960
Speed: 1208 MHz min/max: 1200/3100 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 1223 2: 1213
3: 1198 4: 1199
Vulnerabilities: Type: itlb_multihit status: KVM: Vulnerable
Type: l1tf mitigation: PTE Inversion
Type: mds mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT vulnerable
Type: meltdown mitigation: PTI
Type: spec_store_bypass
mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl and seccomp
Type: spectre_v1
mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization
Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Full generic retpoline, IBPB: conditional,
IBRS_FW, STIBP: conditional, RSB filling
Type: srbds status: Vulnerable: No microcode
Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected
Graphics:
Device-1: Intel 3rd Gen Core processor Graphics vendor: Hewlett-Packard
driver: i915 v: kernel bus ID: 00:02.0 chip ID: 8086:0166
Device-2: AMD Thames [Radeon HD 7500M/7600M Series] vendor: Hewlett-Packard
driver: radeon v: kernel bus ID: 01:00.0 chip ID: 1002:6840
Device-3: Cheng Uei Precision Industry (Foxlink) type: USB driver: uvcvideo
bus ID: 2-1.5:3 chip ID: 05c8:0222 serial: <filter>
Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.8 compositor: kwin_x11 driver: intel,radeon
FAILED: ati unloaded: modesetting alternate: fbdev,vesa display ID: :0
screens: 1
Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1366x768 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 361x203mm (14.2x8.0")
s-diag: 414mm (16.3")
Monitor-1: LVDS1 res: 1366x768 hz: 60 dpi: 102 size: 340x190mm (13.4x7.5")
diag: 389mm (15.3")
OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI Intel HD Graphics 4000 (IVB GT2)
v: 4.2 Mesa 20.1.5 compat-v: 3.0 direct render: Yes
Audio:
Device-1: Intel 7 Series/C216 Family High Definition Audio
vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 00:1b.0
chip ID: 8086:1e20
Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.7.15-1-MANJARO
Network:
Device-1: Ralink RT5390 [802.11 b/g/n 1T1R G-band PCI Express Single Chip]
vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: rt2800pci v: 2.3.0 port: 4000
bus ID: 07:00.0 chip ID: 1814:539f
IF: wlo1 state: up mac: <filter>
Device-2: Realtek RTL810xE PCI Express Fast Ethernet vendor: Hewlett-Packard
driver: r8169 v: kernel port: 3000 bus ID: 08:00.0 chip ID: 10ec:8136
IF: eno1 state: down mac: <filter>
Device-3: Ralink type: USB driver: btusb bus ID: 1-1.3:3 chip ID: 148f:2000
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 465.76 GiB used: 105.40 GiB (22.6%)
SMART Message: Required tool smartctl not installed. Check --recommends
ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Seagate model: ST500LM030-2E717D size: 465.76 GiB
block size: physical: 4096 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s
rotation: 5400 rpm serial: <filter> rev: SDM1 scheme: MBR
Partition:
ID-1: / raw size: 264.59 GiB size: 259.43 GiB (98.05%)
used: 105.40 GiB (40.6%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda4
Swap:
Alert: No Swap data was found.
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 56.0 C mobo: N/A gpu: radeon temp: 50 C
Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Info:
Processes: 203 Uptime: 43m Memory: 3.74 GiB used: 1.68 GiB (44.9%)
Init: systemd v: 245 Compilers: gcc: 10.1.0 clang: 10.0.1 Packages:
pacman: 1554 lib: 408 flatpak: 0 Shell: Bash v: 5.0.18 running in: yakuake
inxi: 3.1.05
Output from HTOP process viewer
1 [|||||||| 15.6%] Tasks: 106, 453 thr; 1 running
2 [||||||| 13.4%] Load average: 0.59 0.57 0.82
3 [||||||| 14.0%] Uptime: 00:42:20
4 [||||||||| 17.0%]
Mem[||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||1.55G/3.74G]
Swp[ 0K/0K]
PID USER PRI NI VIRT RES SHR S CPU% MEM% TIME+ Command
1167 falcon 20 0 3166M 113M 77120 D 10.2 3.0 1:25.37 /usr/bin/kwin_x11
757 root 20 0 992M 129M 99624 S 7.0 3.4 1:29.17 /usr/lib/Xorg -nolisten tcp -auth /var/run/sd
1200 falcon 20 0 2890M 228M 114M S 6.3 6.0 0:36.11 /usr/bin/plasmashell
1829 falcon 20 0 3688M 420M 155M S 5.1 11.0 6:05.94 /usr/lib/firefox/firefox --private-window
5606 falcon 20 0 960M 82984 67440 D 4.4 2.1 0:03.27 /usr/bin/konsole -qwindowtitle Htop -qwindowi
4551 falcon 20 0 2468M 179M 128M S 2.5 4.7 0:10.10 /usr/lib/firefox/firefox -contentproc -childI
1171 falcon 20 0 3166M 113M 77120 S 1.9 3.0 0:19.05 /usr/bin/kwin_x11
5617 falcon 20 0 8900 4580 3404 R 1.3 0.1 0:02.82 /usr/bin/htop
1868 falcon 20 0 3688M 420M 155M S 1.3 11.0 0:27.02 /usr/lib/firefox/firefox --private-window
4560 falcon 20 0 2468M 179M 128M S 1.3 4.7 0:02.59 /usr/lib/firefox/firefox -contentproc -childI
1864 falcon 20 0 3688M 420M 155M S 1.3 11.0 0:10.75 /usr/lib/firefox/firefox --private-window
1936 falcon 20 0 2504M 172M 107M S 1.3 4.5 0:22.85 /usr/lib/firefox/firefox -contentproc -childI
1754 falcon 20 0 2890M 228M 114M S 1.3 6.0 0:04.45 /usr/bin/plasmashell
729 polkitd 20 0 1621M 22904 15692 S 1.3 0.6 0:00.38 /usr/lib/polkit-1/polkitd --no-debug
F1Help F2Setup F3SearchF4FilterF5Tree F6SortByF7Nice -F8Nice +F9Kill F10Quit
Is there any other information that I can provide to help others?
Your htop output isnt sorted by memory … so I cant really tell much besides firefox taking up roughly 45% from what I can see and plasma+kwin+Xorg taking 20% … and your RAM using less than 50% of its total capacity.
Please use the command I posted above to sort by use… but I also dont see it being overloaded.
Output of sudo ps_mem
$ sudo ps_mem
Private + Shared = RAM used Program
96.0 KiB + 110.0 KiB = 206.0 KiB start_kdeinit
136.0 KiB + 176.0 KiB = 312.0 KiB fusermount
316.0 KiB + 350.0 KiB = 666.0 KiB fsnotifier64
348.0 KiB + 414.0 KiB = 762.0 KiB lvmetad
348.0 KiB + 440.0 KiB = 788.0 KiB rtkit-daemon
392.0 KiB + 468.0 KiB = 860.0 KiB crond
504.0 KiB + 576.0 KiB = 1.1 MiB ksysguardd
596.0 KiB + 772.0 KiB = 1.3 MiB dconf-service
604.0 KiB + 838.0 KiB = 1.4 MiB agent
628.0 KiB + 816.0 KiB = 1.4 MiB xdg-permission-store
896.0 KiB + 1.1 MiB = 2.0 MiB gvfs-mtp-volume-monitor
572.0 KiB + 1.5 MiB = 2.0 MiB avahi-daemon (2)
524.0 KiB + 1.5 MiB = 2.1 MiB idea.sh
992.0 KiB + 1.2 MiB = 2.1 MiB xdg-document-portal
976.0 KiB + 1.2 MiB = 2.1 MiB at-spi-bus-launcher
1.0 MiB + 1.3 MiB = 2.3 MiB at-spi2-registryd
964.0 KiB + 1.3 MiB = 2.3 MiB gvfsd
1.1 MiB + 1.3 MiB = 2.5 MiB gvfsd-metadata
1.1 MiB + 1.4 MiB = 2.5 MiB gsettings-helper
1.2 MiB + 1.4 MiB = 2.6 MiB gvfs-gphoto2-volume-monitor
1.2 MiB + 1.4 MiB = 2.7 MiB gvfsd-fuse
1.0 MiB + 1.7 MiB = 2.7 MiB startplasma-x11
1.1 MiB + 1.6 MiB = 2.7 MiB gvfsd-dnssd
1.2 MiB + 1.7 MiB = 2.9 MiB gvfsd-trash
1.2 MiB + 1.7 MiB = 2.9 MiB gvfsd-network
1.4 MiB + 1.6 MiB = 2.9 MiB bluetoothd
1.1 MiB + 1.9 MiB = 3.0 MiB gvfs-afc-volume-monitor
1.2 MiB + 2.1 MiB = 3.3 MiB systemd-timesyncd
1.5 MiB + 2.3 MiB = 3.8 MiB systemd-logind
1.7 MiB + 2.3 MiB = 4.0 MiB sudo
1.9 MiB + 2.8 MiB = 4.7 MiB sddm
2.1 MiB + 2.9 MiB = 5.0 MiB upowerd
1.9 MiB + 3.2 MiB = 5.1 MiB gvfs-udisks2-volume-monitor
2.1 MiB + 3.2 MiB = 5.3 MiB bash
2.1 MiB + 3.6 MiB = 5.7 MiB sddm-helper
2.2 MiB + 3.5 MiB = 5.7 MiB kscreen_backend_launcher
2.3 MiB + 3.5 MiB = 5.8 MiB xembedsniproxy
2.3 MiB + 3.5 MiB = 5.8 MiB gmenudbusmenuproxy
2.6 MiB + 3.6 MiB = 6.2 MiB cupsd
2.4 MiB + 4.0 MiB = 6.4 MiB pipewire-media-session
3.2 MiB + 3.2 MiB = 6.4 MiB haveged
3.0 MiB + 3.7 MiB = 6.7 MiB wpa_supplicant
2.9 MiB + 4.0 MiB = 6.9 MiB xdg-desktop-portal
3.6 MiB + 4.3 MiB = 7.9 MiB ModemManager
3.3 MiB + 5.0 MiB = 8.3 MiB pipewire
3.8 MiB + 4.8 MiB = 8.6 MiB dbus-daemon (3)
3.8 MiB + 5.1 MiB = 8.9 MiB udisksd
4.7 MiB + 5.3 MiB = 10.0 MiB systemd-udevd
4.5 MiB + 7.0 MiB = 11.5 MiB klauncher
5.7 MiB + 6.5 MiB = 12.2 MiB colord
4.9 MiB + 7.4 MiB = 12.2 MiB polkit-kde-authentication-agent-1
4.9 MiB + 7.4 MiB = 12.2 MiB kwalletd5
5.5 MiB + 7.2 MiB = 12.7 MiB pulseaudio
5.1 MiB + 7.6 MiB = 12.7 MiB kaccess
4.7 MiB + 8.2 MiB = 12.8 MiB org_kde_powerdevil
1.4 MiB + 11.9 MiB = 13.2 MiB kdeinit5 (3)
5.0 MiB + 8.3 MiB = 13.3 MiB ksmserver
5.4 MiB + 8.0 MiB = 13.4 MiB kactivitymanagerd
5.8 MiB + 8.1 MiB = 13.9 MiB kglobalaccel5
6.6 MiB + 8.3 MiB = 14.9 MiB NetworkManager
4.9 MiB + 12.1 MiB = 17.0 MiB systemd (3)
7.1 MiB + 10.7 MiB = 17.9 MiB msm_kde_notifier
7.4 MiB + 12.6 MiB = 19.9 MiB kdeconnectd
10.6 MiB + 19.8 MiB = 30.4 MiB pamac-tray-appindicator
15.4 MiB + 15.8 MiB = 31.3 MiB polkitd
11.8 MiB + 19.8 MiB = 31.6 MiB kded5
7.0 MiB + 28.1 MiB = 35.1 MiB postgres (7)
15.4 MiB + 24.0 MiB = 39.4 MiB yakuake
19.5 MiB + 34.0 MiB = 53.5 MiB systemd-journald
14.8 MiB + 41.5 MiB = 56.3 MiB xdg-desktop-portal-kde
32.4 MiB + 46.7 MiB = 79.1 MiB kate
18.0 MiB + 62.2 MiB = 80.1 MiB baloo_file
33.6 MiB + 50.3 MiB = 83.9 MiB ksysguard
19.8 MiB + 65.5 MiB = 85.4 MiB baloorunner
49.2 MiB + 64.1 MiB = 113.3 MiB kwin_x11
65.4 MiB + 108.8 MiB = 174.1 MiB Xorg
102.2 MiB + 124.0 MiB = 226.2 MiB krunner
127.1 MiB + 155.4 MiB = 282.5 MiB plasmashell
318.9 MiB + 379.0 MiB = 697.9 MiB MainThread
642.4 MiB + 856.6 MiB = 1.5 GiB firefox (8)
899.9 MiB + 938.3 MiB = 1.8 GiB java (2)
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5.7 GiB
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Apart from firefox(7 tabs) I have not opened any thing in extra. But if I open things like Idea(IntelliJ editor). The system is hanging and I have no other option than force restarting it by long pressing the power button on my laptop.
Well … thats half your RAM right there. And FF(7tab of whatever) is another 37%.
I would say you need to check your habits, and/or configure your system for your use-case and minimal resources, and/or upgrade your hardware,
and/or tame java
(for example … doing nothing else you could ‘optimize’ your low-resource system by doing things like tune your swap to not engage so easily … you could install things like ZRAM … etc)
Thanks so much for your reply, even that is what I am thinking, It might be due to the hardware. Is there anything apart from my hardware, what else can I tweak to improve the performance of Manjaro?
Apart from this I am also facing a small problem, after booting(after the green Manjaro logo icon screen). I am getting the black screen until my desktop is visible. Could this also be a problem with the RAM issue?
Theres mmore than a few things you could do … I suggest doing your own research on things like swappines and ZRAM and more.
Also … you can slim your plasma… mainly just give it as much of the windoze95 treatment as you can stand and get rid of stuff you dont need. Heres an old tutorial on some ways to do that:
But I will give you one gift … here is a script me and another user were making a while back.
It should make it easier for you to adjust some values, like swappiness (I suggest value of 10)
Sorry to bum in @cscs. I’d just like to make some suggestions:
/sys/module/zswap/parameters/same_filled_pages_enabled:Y
/sys/module/zswap/parameters/enabled:Y
/sys/module/zswap/parameters/max_pool_percent:25
/sys/module/zswap/parameters/compressor:lz4
/sys/module/zswap/parameters/zpool:z3fold
Note max_pool_percent is the same as swappiness.
Never apologize for adding to the conversation in a constructive way 
Apparently ps_mem has deducted you’re using more ram than your machine has available. Those numbers don’t fit together.
Aren’t there shared libraries counted repeatedly?
EDIT: Look:
[lcoimbra@dg-lcoimbra ~]$ sudo ps_mem
Private + Shared = RAM used Program
8.0 KiB + 70.0 KiB = 78.0 KiB xsettingsd
36.0 KiB + 52.0 KiB = 88.0 KiB start_kdeinit
16.0 KiB + 158.0 KiB = 174.0 KiB dconf-service
12.0 KiB + 170.0 KiB = 182.0 KiB startplasma-x11
20.0 KiB + 197.0 KiB = 217.0 KiB gsettings-helper
116.0 KiB + 248.0 KiB = 364.0 KiB sleep
188.0 KiB + 224.0 KiB = 412.0 KiB lvmetad
188.0 KiB + 238.0 KiB = 426.0 KiB crond
220.0 KiB + 310.0 KiB = 530.0 KiB rtkit-daemon
192.0 KiB + 370.0 KiB = 562.0 KiB gvfsd-trash
272.0 KiB + 342.0 KiB = 614.0 KiB irqbalance
292.0 KiB + 502.0 KiB = 794.0 KiB at-spi2-registryd
416.0 KiB + 462.0 KiB = 878.0 KiB dbus-launch
428.0 KiB + 642.0 KiB = 1.0 MiB gvfs-mtp-volume-monitor
424.0 KiB + 661.0 KiB = 1.1 MiB at-spi-bus-launcher
428.0 KiB + 678.0 KiB = 1.1 MiB gvfs-gphoto2-volume-monitor
564.0 KiB + 650.0 KiB = 1.2 MiB nxexec
492.0 KiB + 780.0 KiB = 1.2 MiB sddm
480.0 KiB + 808.0 KiB = 1.3 MiB gmenudbusmenuproxy
416.0 KiB + 942.0 KiB = 1.3 MiB gvfs-afc-volume-monitor
620.0 KiB + 910.0 KiB = 1.5 MiB gvfsd-dnssd
600.0 KiB + 936.0 KiB = 1.5 MiB gvfsd
528.0 KiB + 1.0 MiB = 1.6 MiB avahi-daemon (2)
716.0 KiB + 876.0 KiB = 1.6 MiB gvfsd-fuse
724.0 KiB + 976.0 KiB = 1.7 MiB gvfsd-network
552.0 KiB + 1.2 MiB = 1.7 MiB systemd-timesyncd
836.0 KiB + 986.0 KiB = 1.8 MiB nxd
772.0 KiB + 1.2 MiB = 2.0 MiB xembedsniproxy
808.0 KiB + 1.2 MiB = 2.0 MiB kscreen_backend_launcher
784.0 KiB + 1.3 MiB = 2.1 MiB systemd-logind
988.0 KiB + 1.5 MiB = 2.5 MiB klauncher
480.0 KiB + 2.2 MiB = 2.7 MiB kdeinit5 (2)
1.2 MiB + 1.7 MiB = 2.9 MiB kglobalaccel5
1.2 MiB + 1.8 MiB = 3.0 MiB upowerd
1.5 MiB + 1.7 MiB = 3.2 MiB sddm-helper
1.5 MiB + 1.8 MiB = 3.3 MiB systemd-udevd
1.3 MiB + 1.9 MiB = 3.3 MiB cupsd
1.4 MiB + 2.4 MiB = 3.8 MiB gvfs-udisks2-volume-monitor
2.0 MiB + 2.1 MiB = 4.1 MiB haveged
1.9 MiB + 2.3 MiB = 4.2 MiB kaccess
1.9 MiB + 2.8 MiB = 4.6 MiB kactivitymanagerd
2.5 MiB + 3.0 MiB = 5.5 MiB colord
2.3 MiB + 3.3 MiB = 5.6 MiB sudo
1.4 MiB + 4.2 MiB = 5.6 MiB nmbd
2.2 MiB + 3.6 MiB = 5.9 MiB ksmserver
2.9 MiB + 3.0 MiB = 6.0 MiB plugplay.exe
2.7 MiB + 3.5 MiB = 6.2 MiB ModemManager
3.2 MiB + 3.4 MiB = 6.6 MiB rpcss.exe
2.5 MiB + 4.1 MiB = 6.6 MiB bash (2)
3.1 MiB + 3.8 MiB = 6.9 MiB org_kde_powerdevil
3.5 MiB + 3.6 MiB = 7.1 MiB services.exe
3.2 MiB + 4.0 MiB = 7.3 MiB dbus-daemon (4)
3.5 MiB + 4.6 MiB = 8.1 MiB udisksd
4.2 MiB + 5.0 MiB = 9.1 MiB pulseaudio
3.7 MiB + 5.5 MiB = 9.2 MiB kded5
2.8 MiB + 6.8 MiB = 9.6 MiB systemd (3)
4.4 MiB + 5.3 MiB = 9.7 MiB kdeconnectd
4.4 MiB + 5.5 MiB = 9.9 MiB polkit-kde-authentication-agent-1
3.2 MiB + 6.8 MiB = 10.0 MiB clementine-tagreader (2)
4.9 MiB + 6.6 MiB = 11.5 MiB NetworkManager
5.6 MiB + 6.1 MiB = 11.6 MiB systemd-journald
7.0 MiB + 7.5 MiB = 14.5 MiB msm_kde_notifier
6.8 MiB + 8.3 MiB = 15.1 MiB octopi-notifier
3.6 MiB + 12.6 MiB = 16.2 MiB smbd (4)
8.3 MiB + 13.0 MiB = 21.3 MiB speedcrunch
10.9 MiB + 11.2 MiB = 22.1 MiB polkitd
10.9 MiB + 11.3 MiB = 22.2 MiB explorer.exe
12.5 MiB + 13.0 MiB = 25.5 MiB nxclient.bin
12.6 MiB + 12.9 MiB = 25.6 MiB winedevice.exe (2)
15.3 MiB + 15.6 MiB = 30.9 MiB OSPPSVC.EXE
17.5 MiB + 25.6 MiB = 43.0 MiB yakuake
21.7 MiB + 21.8 MiB = 43.5 MiB wineserver64
26.5 MiB + 35.6 MiB = 62.1 MiB krusader
32.3 MiB + 34.6 MiB = 66.9 MiB yad
38.9 MiB + 39.7 MiB = 78.6 MiB nxnode.bin
42.1 MiB + 46.8 MiB = 88.9 MiB kwin_x11
48.1 MiB + 49.2 MiB = 97.2 MiB nxserver.bin
55.4 MiB + 69.4 MiB = 124.8 MiB clementine
81.2 MiB + 96.6 MiB = 177.8 MiB zim
90.3 MiB + 95.7 MiB = 186.0 MiB megasync
107.1 MiB + 111.3 MiB = 218.4 MiB winewrapper.exe (12)
134.6 MiB + 146.2 MiB = 280.9 MiB okular
155.3 MiB + 252.5 MiB = 407.8 MiB Xorg
283.4 MiB + 294.5 MiB = 577.9 MiB plasmashell
411.5 MiB + 450.6 MiB = 862.1 MiB falkon
505.2 MiB + 608.2 MiB = 1.1 GiB QtWebEngineProcess (5)
2.2 GiB + 2.3 GiB = 4.5 GiB EXCEL.EXE (12)
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9.3 GiB
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[lcoimbra@dg-lcoimbra ~]$ free
total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 7837 4675 2101 514 1060 2392
Swap: 8191 321 7870
ps_mem isn’t a good tool to deduct the total RAM usage.
mbb, thanks a ton for your reply. Would you suggest going for a ram upgrade to 16 GiB? Will this fix the problem?
I also use this free -h to view
$ free -h
total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 3.7Gi 1.5Gi 373Mi 224Mi 1.9Gi 1.7Gi
Swap: 0B 0B 0B
Having more memory is always good. Depending on your usage of the computer, you may not need 16GB. It also depends on your slot configuration. How many slots do you have and how are they occupied? Is there a free one? If so, you can buy 8GB and you’ll have 12GB (check in your manual if the computer supports it). I’d say, nowadays, 4GB is the minimum, but it’s much better to have ate least 8GB. If you make use of VM’s or programs very heavy on RAM usage, then go to 12GB or 16GB.
However, looking at your specs, the most advantage would come from upgrading your hard drive. Really, it’s a huge difference to have a fast SSD. So it all depends on your financial capacity. If you have to choose go for the SSD first and set swap and zswap. Later you can upgrade the ram.
@mbb,
Yes there are two slots, one already occupied and one free. Let me check if my mother board supports 8GB ram.
mbb,
Sorry for the late reply
My default settings
$ grep -R . /sys/module/zswap/parameters
/sys/module/zswap/parameters/same_filled_pages_enabled:Y
/sys/module/zswap/parameters/enabled:Y
/sys/module/zswap/parameters/max_pool_percent:20
/sys/module/zswap/parameters/compressor:zstd
/sys/module/zswap/parameters/zpool:z3fold
/sys/module/zswap/parameters/accept_threshold_percent:90
Changing the settings that you’d mentioned
$ grep -R . /sys/module/zswap/parameters
/sys/module/zswap/parameters/same_filled_pages_enabled:Y
/sys/module/zswap/parameters/enabled:Y
/sys/module/zswap/parameters/max_pool_percent:25
/sys/module/zswap/parameters/compressor:lz4
/sys/module/zswap/parameters/zpool:z3fold
/sys/module/zswap/parameters/accept_threshold_percent:90
Let me check if I am still facing the slowness/freezing issue.
Nice tough 