10-12-2012
Quote:
Originally Posted by
cokedude
Why do you think it is ram instead of cpu issue? I was thinking it was a cpu issue. Ram is much easier to replace so I hope your right.
The way you presented your problem it would have been easily explainable by a memory shortage. That doesn't mean it
is a memory shortage, though. This is why i asked you to confirm this.
Always keep in mind that i know your computer only from what you are telling me. Because this picture is necessarily incomplete i come up with all sorts of theories - it falls upon you to falsify them. You haven't said how much memory is installed in your laptop, so i supposed the problem to come from a memory shortage - your information that you have 4GB installed and 4GB swap configured pretty much clears this suspicion.
I'd still try to do as i have told you, just to ultimately falsify this. Another thing might be a problem with the applications: start them from a command line and watch carefully for any output they might produce. Firefox and vlc (i haven't used chrome yet) produce no output at all as long as everything works perfectly, so any output at all will be relevant.
I hope this helps.
bakunin
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
cgexec
CGEXEC(1) libcgroup Manual CGEXEC(1)
NAME
cgexec - run the task in given control groups
SYNOPSIS
cgexec [-h] [-g <controllers>:<path>] [--sticky] command [arguments]
DESCRIPTION
The cgexec program executes the task command with arguments arguments in the given control groups.
-g <controllers>:<path>
defines the control groups in which the task will be run. controllers is a list of controllers and path is the relative path to
control groups in the given controllers list.
This flag can be used multiple times to define multiple pairs of lists of controllers and relative paths. Instead of the list of
all mounted controllers, the wildcard b"*b" can be used.
If this option is not used, cgexec will automatically place the task in the right cgroup based on /etc/cgrules.conf.
-h, --help
Display this help and exit.
--sticky
If running the task command with this option, the daemon of service cgred (cgrulesengd process) does not change both the task of the
command and the child tasks. Without this option, the daemon does not change the task of the command but it changes the child tasks
to the right cgroup based on /etc/cgrules.conf automatically.
EXAMPLES
cgexec -g *:test1 ls
runs command ls in control group test1 in all mounted controllers.
cgexec -g cpu,memory:test1 ls -l
runs command ls -l in control group test1 in controllers cpu and memory.
cgexec -g cpu,memory:test1 -g swap:test2 ls -l
runs command ls -l in control group test1 in controllers cpu and memory and control group test2 in controller swap.
FILES
/etc/cgrules.conf
default libcgroup configuration file
SEE ALSO
cgrules.conf (5)
Linux 2009-03-15 CGEXEC(1)