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Questions tagged [resource-usage]

This tag is related to the questions that are asking about cpu, memory, energy, graphics, and other computer resources. For example how to control or optimize the amount of memory being used by a program.

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Determine which tab in Firefox is using CPU resources?

Is there anything in the current Firefox similar to the Task Manager in Google Chrome? (Shift + Esc) There is something that occasionally takes up enough CPU to make Firefox unresponsive - but with multiple windows, each with a dozen or so tabs…
chris
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How do I find out what processes are accessing the hard disk in a GNU/Linux-based system?

I'm looking for the equivalent to top for disk access, so I can tell which process(es) are currently reading and/or writing to disk. I'm currently using Ubuntu, but I imagine there's a standard tool that's available as part of the GNU toolset.
Olivier Dagenais
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Is there `top` for disk usage

How to track disk usage (write/read and other cool stuff) in realtime with fashion of top in the only right system in shell? It would be cool if it could monitor specific directory.
Szymon Toda
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Limit Disk Usage of WSL2

As the title already states, I want to limit the disk usage of the Linux subsystem. I'm trying to build huge projects on the WSL while using Windows normally... I already limited the RAM and CPU usage using the .wslconfig file, but I don't know how…
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Windows 10 averaging over 50GB of writes/day to SSD over 9 months

Update: Moving the following folders off drive then symlinking them eliminated the constant writing to C:. %LocalAppData%\Google\Chrome - Easily the biggest consumer. %LocalAppData%\Microsoft\Windows\FileHistory I moved them to a freshly formatted…
Derek Ziemba
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Windows desktop background: how to have system info displayed

Some Windows machines can be configured with a desktop background that will query the local system for its hardware configuration, OS, configuration, statistics, etc. What program do you need to install to acquire this type of desktop background?
p.campbell
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What happens when a computer runs out of RAM?

A little ago, out of curiosity, I wrote a Java program that takes up a lot of memory very fast. (It adds BufferedImages to an arraylist in a loop.) I kept the Windows System Monitor open to observe the RAM usage as it ran. When I started the…
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How to find the process(es) which are hogging the machine

Scenario: All of a sudden, my computer feels sluggish. Mouse moves but windows take ages to open, etc. uptime says the load is 7.69 and raising. What is the fastest way to find out which process(es) are the cause of the load? Now, "top" and similar…
Aaron Digulla
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Increase the time window in Resource Monitor

The Resource Monitor in Windows 10 shows only last 60 seconds (see below). How do I increase it to several minutes? I know that in the Task Manager, I can do View > Update speed > Low, which will give me 4 minutes (well, I'd need longer interval…
Tomas
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How to track down causes of ≥100% CPU usage in Firefox (on desktop)?

Certain websites cause Firefox to continuously use 100% CPU. Some of them I can just block and never visit, of course, but some others I unfortunately need to use sometimes. I want to combat that, and the first step is to identify offending…
Display Name
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GNOME Shell has very high CPU and memory usage

I use Debian 7.3 (Wheezy) with the default GNOME 3 desktop and run VirtualBox to have a Windows 8.1 guest. My host has 16GB RAM and a Core i7 CPU with 8 processor cores. When I start the Windows 8.1 guest (which has 8 GB RAM and 4 cores), the…
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Analyze disk usage based on file type

I want to analyze disk usage by file type, if possible also sort and find. In other words, the output of the file utility as criteria for the analysis or the sort. So regardless of file name, the command or script should look into the file,…
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What is Disk Active Time and how do I decrease it?

Looking at Task Manager in Windows, I see my hard drive is pretty maxed out on "Active Time" Empirically that seems to relate to when my hard drive is locked up, apps go grey, etc. (the rest of my resources are pretty low usage on the graph). My…
Eddie Parker
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Windows 8 MsMpEng.exe high disk usage, uninstalled Defender, and now AvastSvc.exe

I recently disabled Windows Defender due to MsMpEng.exe randomly spiking up my computer's disk usage. I saw it from Task Manager->Details->I/O read and write bytes. The read bytes go as high as 12,000,000 bytes. So I switched to Avast, which I…
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Low FPS in some games, but hardware not fully used

I just did a little funny experiment in the game/sim "Train Simulator 2013". I normally have good FPS in it (around 30) at full settings. What I did was make a really, really long train so that the calculations the sim needed to make were enormous…
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