[xubuntu-users] System slow, multiple thunar processes running

[John R. Sowden]

All I did was copy your command line and place it into a terminal and 
pressed enter.
I tried to make the terminal window bigger because it was wrapping, but 
that had no effect, so, not understanding the commands anyway, I decided 
not to 'muck it up'.

I did not sort any column, what you see is the raw data from your command.

But I do not think sorting would do any good because the 'thunar' lines 
were constantly moving all over the screen covering the about top 25 
lines.  What you captured with your command is a snapshot of a moment.  
By the way, when I went home, I ran the top command on my home computer, 
same LTS version, there were no 'thunars' on the listing at all.

I think the main issue here is, why are these thunars running on my 
computer at all, if I do not have a file manager open.

John


On 09/02/2017 02:00 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> Next time please without line wrapping and grep alias.
>
> john at sentry35:~$  ps aux|head -1;ps aux|grep thunar|grep -v grep\ thunar
> USER       PID %CPU %MEM    VSZ   RSS TTY      STAT START   TIME COMMAND
> john     11837  0.0  1.3  45556 13496 ?        Sl   10:15   0:00 thunar /home/john/Desktop/Old Firefox Data/xb9b6md2.default-1445035987460/bookmarkbackups/bookmarks-2016-06-22_479_smiwWhNvqSGFJpzSMHxBTQ==.jsonlz4
> john     11838  0.0  1.5  61948 15372 ?        Rl   10:15   0:00 thunar /home/john/Desktop/Old Firefox Data/xb9b6md2.default-1445035987460/bookmarkbackups/bookmarks-2016-06-22_479_smiwWhNvqSGFJpzSMHxBTQ==.jsonlz4
> john     11840  0.0  1.3  61948 13320 ?        Rl   10:15   0:00 thunar /home/john/Desktop/Old Firefox Data/xb9b6md2.default-1445035987460/bookmarkbackups/bookmarks-2016-06-22_479_smiwWhNvqSGFJpzSMHxBTQ==.jsonlz4
> john     11842  0.0  1.2  45556 13188 ?        Sl   10:15   0:00 thunar /home/john/Desktop/Old Firefox Data/xb9b6md2.default-1445035987460/bookmarkbackups/bookmarks-2016-06-22_479_smiwWhNvqSGFJpzSMHxBTQ==.jsonlz4
>
> I doubt that 0.0% CPU usage and 5.3% MEM usage are the cause for the
> bad performance.
>
> How did you sort when running top?
>
> After running top push x to highlight the column you are currently
> sorting by, then push Shift+M to sort by memory and after that Shift+P
> to sort by CPU usage. This at least should work with a default "classic"
> top.
>
>