On Mon, Sep 24, 2018 at 9:49 PM Victor Forberger <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 09/21/2018 07:24 PM, John R. Sowden wrote: > > xubuntu 18.04 I am experiencing long delays, some over 1 minute to open > > a file, search for a web page, like g??g??.com) > > > > I ran htop and found several mysql programs running taking 15% of the > > memory. > > > > I was unable to kill them. No errors shown. > > > > I am not running mysql as far as I know. > > > > > > What's up? > Can you check if you are already hitting memory page swapping to disk? Also, can you try and check how much disk space you have left? > > > > john > > > > > > John, > > The mysql stuff is probably running because of something else -- a > server of some kind or a search tool. For instance, owncloud clients and > servers depend on mysql. > > mysql almost always runs as a special user of some kind, so you will > need to use sudo kill PROCESS_NUMBER to properly kill any instances of it. > > Try looking at your log files in /var/log to see how software is > starting up on your computer. > > Also, look at your /etc/sysctl* and systemd files and directories for > any additions that reference database-type programs. > > modules-load.d and modprobe.d inside /etc may also have strange additions. > > Obviously, be extremely cautious about changing anything in these > directories (web search the hell out of any questions you have and > backup anything you change so that you can restore from a terminal if > things go haywire). You can easily screw your computer over by fussing > around in these directories. > > - Victor > > -- > -- > Victor Forberger > [email protected] > blog: http://linuxatty.wordpress.com > > > -- > xubuntu-users mailing list > [email protected] > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-users > -- Guang <http://javadevnotes.com/java-array-of-objects>
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