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TIME+ COMMAND
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73:39.09 gnome-shell                             
6:39.58 kswapd0                                 
7:20.54 kcompactd0                              
46:26.92 Xorg                                    
2579449 roadrov+
17:18.61 chrome                                  

My laptop is very slow these days and almost every time I type "top" I can see these processes in it. All have extremely high TIME+, seems stuck.

Outputs from free -h:

               total        used        free      shared  buff/cache   available
Mem:           7.3Gi       4.7Gi       352Mi       2.0Gi       2.3Gi       344Mi
Swap:             0B          0B          0B

A few days before I tried to increase my swap size to 8GB using instructions here, all steps seemed successful, untill the last step failed as it prompted swapon: /swapfile: skipping - it appears to have holes. This is, I guess, the reason of 0 swap size.

How slow my OS is? -- I only have Chrome, Text Editor, Calendar open, and Chrome have 4 tabs, when I highlight and rightclick on something then click on search for xxx in Google, there is a chance that my whole OS freezes, can't even move cursor. After a few seconds everything will be okay, no app would be force quitted by systemd-oomd, which used to happen a lot to me before attempting modifying swap size.

Willow Lu
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