On Thursday, October 6, 2016 at 1:52:50 PM UTC, Tom Breloff wrote: > > The first thing I'd check is whether you're using any swap (next time you > notice the slowness)... that will bring a system to its knees instantly. >
Thanks, I know, has happened, but didn't seem to fit that pattern (can't rule out, that being the possibility): KiB Mem : 16331292 total, 3317048 free, 11967844 used, 1046400 buff/cache KiB Swap: 32226300 total, 26103780 free, 6122520 used. 3758560 avail Mem [I realize now, before I had SSD (and swap on it), not on the recent work machine I got..] > On Thu, Oct 6, 2016 at 9:29 AM, Páll Haraldsson <[email protected] > <javascript:>> wrote: > >> Has anyone noticed, for such simple stuff as: >> >> a=[1,2,3,1] >> >> [something like 10 seconds, but yes, instantly after closing Julia and >> opening again.] >> >> just now in Version 0.5.0-rc4+0 >> >> >> Yes, I do have something else running (a web browser, Firefox, always at >> 100% CPU..). >> >> I ignored this the first time I noticed, as I thought CPU load the cause. >> Julia and Firefox have the safe priority, the default 20 in Linux. >> >> I didn't notice this before in 0.4. This could in theory be newer Firefox >> (pre-"electrolysis", w/new "Web Content" process). Still doubt that, as >> Linux SHOULD multitask well and while the browser is often problematic, it >> usually doesn't slow down other non-GUI stuff at least.. >> >> -- >> Palli. >> >> >
