tracker-miner-fs is taking 90% of CPU. I am using Ubuntu 20.04. Answer Have some patience. It eventually will go over. Tracker is an indexing system. It searches all files for words, which are included in a database so you can quickly find files containing specific words. The first time, tracker needs to index all files. … Read more
I have a workflow like this: I fire up my Win7 virtual machine, connect my smartphone, and run Samsung Smartswitch. This worked great in 14.04 LTS. In 18.04 LTS…not so much. There’s a giant memory leak in gvfsd-mtp that hoovers up all 12G of my RAM and brings my system to a halt. There are … Read more
I have tried everything I could think of so here I am asking this question here… I have a computer that has 8 GB of RAM. After booting the computer, logging in, not opening any applications and leaving the computer on overnight, the memory usage skyrockets and all 8 gigabytes of RAM are used. At … Read more
Closed. This question is off-topic. It is not currently accepting answers. Want to improve this question? Update the question so it’s on-topic for Ask Ubuntu. Closed 3 years ago. Improve this question After some time that the computer runs, Xorg starts using ridiculous amounts of RAM: On startup it uses only 50-80 MB, after a … Read more
I have firefox version 11.0 and am running ubuntu 11.10. Firefox takes upto 850MB RAM with only six or seven tabs opened and all the tabs loaded with light weight websites only. I wonder why would a browser consume so much memory. It keeps increasing its memory consumption over time. I have 3GB RAM and … Read more
I’ve noticed lately that the performance of the UI in Gnome 3.36.2 seems to decay with uptime. The most obvious manifestation is that over time, window animations have a delay and feel “sticky”. Applications themselves seem unaffected. When I tell gnome to switch workspaces, there’s about a half second to full second delay before the … Read more
I am experiencing some serious performance issues with my Ubuntu 12.04 setup and thus looking for the culprit by running htop alongside my usual tasks. Aside from the usual suspects like chromium, compiz and conky, I noticed this process: /usr/bin/X :0 -auth /var/run/lightdm/root/:0 -nolisten tcp vt7 -novtswitch -background none Not only is it running constantly, … Read more
On a fresh started system, free reports about 1.5G used RAM (8G RAM alltogether, Ubuntu 12.04 with lightdm and plasma desktop, one konsole window started). Having the apps running I use, it still consumes not more than 2G. However, having the system running for a couple of days, more and more of my free RAM … Read more
I seem to have a larger memory leak on my current ubuntu System After reporting strange Eclipse memory errors ( https://askubuntu.com/questions/148998/eclipse-constant-different-out-of-memory-errors ) I started to get ‘Not enough Memory’ error messages in my console today – while doing simple tasks like typing in sudo -s – or even – free -m Typing in ‘free -m’ … Read more
I’m using Ubuntu 12.10 with Gnome-Classic. I am getting this error frequently and with almost all programs, big and small. When I try to open them, they don’t start, and instead I get an error message that says Could not launch ‘Program’ – Failed to fork child process (Cannot allocate memory). This wasn’t a problem … Read more
