Hmmm.... Guess I need to figure out why my Ubuntu sometimes slows to a crawl and doesn't recover.

[stefan@gardenstate.social]

Hmmm.... Guess I need to figure out why my Ubuntu sometimes slows to a crawl and doesn't recover. The mouse can barely move. I end up needing to hard reboot.

Alt + control + f1 doesn't do anything for me.

I've yet to find an app that will show me important events in a simple way to debug.

#ubuntu

[jesstheunstill@infosec.exchange]

@stefan Sometimes I've found that a killall -9 slack or zoom or whatever recovers it

[ecosdelfuturo@mstdn.social]

@stefan what about trying opening terminal (CTRL+ALT+T) after booting and with top command see if any process is consuming most of CPU. I used to have problems with this

https://askubuntu.com/questions/1549832/tracker-miner-fs-3-always-running-in-the-background-and-searching-for-a-file-no

Hope it helps!

[fmbdx@piaille.fr]

@stefan Massive swapping?

[stefan@gardenstate.social]

@JessTheUnstill how do I run that if nothing responds? If there is a way I don't know.

[stefan@gardenstate.social]

@ecosdelfuturo will that show past events? If I re boot everything is fine.

[stefan@gardenstate.social]

@fmbdx I don't know what that means or how to use that info to help myself

[ecosdelfuturo@mstdn.social]

@stefan it will not. After rebooting, try to check in the system monitor if you see tracker-miner consuming CPU or see the hard drive led flashing like crazy.

[jesstheunstill@infosec.exchange]

@stefan ah didn't notice that ctrl alt F1 didn't work