After more than a year of procrastinating, I finally installed Mint 18.3 Sylvia Cinnamon as a dual boot with WIn7. I am in the process of moving everything over to Mint and am determined to leave Win behind except when I need to go back for a couple of apps I will occasionally need there.
The switch has been a challenge. I love Mint but I have quite a few problems I'm working to iron out. and more seem to pop up all the time. I am determined. I will post about specific problems elsewhere if I can't find solutions on my own, but I will start here.
Does Mint have a limit on the amount of RAM it will use? I can really push my systems but using a lot of resource hungry apps at the same time but in Win my system could handle it. At this pont in Mint, not so much. I will post my stats below but I have 24GB of RAM installed, soon to be 32GB, in Win I would often see RAM usage creep up to about 22GB mostly due to my problematic use of my Vivaldi browser, I really have to clean up some of those 300 plus open tabs, I am working on it. haha. But with Mint I have never seen RAM usage go beyond 7GB in HTOP or system monitor. I have also never seen swap used. Its always zero.
I am experiencing system freezes once or twice a day, display problems under certain conditions, some app problems, sound problems at times.. Of course when the system freezes, I can't get to my open instances of HTOP, the terminal or anything else to see what's happening but I am wondering if I am bumping up against some RAM limit that is causing problems. If there is a limit, can I change it?
Also are there any good diagnostic tools you might know of that can help me figure things out? One of my favorite things about WIndows was Process Explorer, as well as all the other sysInternals tools. I really miss those.
System Monitor never seems to give any kind of accurate indication of CPU usage, I have never seen anything above 4% on that. Someone has made a very spare and really pretty useless Linux version of process Explorer.
The learning curve is pretty steep but I am up to the challenge and look forward to having a powerful and stable Mint experience. I am committed.
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Memory: Array-1 capacity: 32 GB devices: 4 EC: None
Device-1: ChannelA-DIMM0 size: 4 GB speed: 1600 MHz type: DDR3
Device-2: ChannelA-DIMM1 size: 8 GB speed: 1600 MHz type: DDR3
Device-3: ChannelB-DIMM0 size: 4 GB speed: 1600 MHz type: DDR3
Device-4: ChannelB-DIMM1 size: 8 GB speed: 1600 MHz type: DDR3
b@YMint ~ $ inxi -Fxz
System: Host: YMint Kernel: 4.13.0-41-generic x86_64 (64 bit gcc: 5.4.0)
Desktop: Cinnamon 3.6.7 (Gtk 3.18.9-1ubuntu3.3) Distro: Linux Mint 18.3 Sylvia
Machine: System: ASUSTeK (portable) product: G75VW v: 1.0
Mobo: ASUSTeK model: G75VW v: 1.0 Bios: American Megatrends v: G75VW.207 date: 04/06/2012
CPU: Quad core Intel Core i7-3610QM (-HT-MCP-) cache: 6144 KB
flags: (lm nx sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx) bmips: 18357
clock speeds: max: 3300 MHz 1: 1290 MHz 2: 1328 MHz 3: 1361 MHz 4: 1273 MHz 5: 1401 MHz 6: 1342 MHz
7: 1377 MHz 8: 1307 MHz
Graphics: Card: NVIDIA GF114M [GeForce GTX 670M] bus-ID: 01:00.0
Display Server: X.Org 1.18.4 drivers: nvidia (unloaded: fbdev,vesa,nouveau)
Resolution: 1920x1080@60.01hz, 1920x1080@60.00hz
GLX Renderer: GeForce GTX 670M/PCIe/SSE2 GLX Version: 4.5.0 NVIDIA 384.111 Direct Rendering: Yes
Audio: Card-1 Intel 7 Series/C210 Series Family High Definition Audio Controller
driver: snd_hda_intel bus-ID: 00:1b.0
Card-2 NVIDIA GF114 HDMI Audio Controller driver: snd_hda_intel bus-ID: 01:00.1
Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture v: k4.13.0-41-generic
Network: Card-1: Intel Wireless 7260 driver: iwlwifi bus-ID: 03:00.0
IF: wlp3s0 state: down mac: <filter>
Card-2: Qualcomm Atheros AR8151 v2.0 Gigabit Ethernet
driver: atl1c v: 1.0.1.1-NAPI port: d000 bus-ID: 04:00.0
IF: enp4s0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
Drives: HDD Total Size: 28505.6GB (60.0% used) ID-1: /dev/sda model: Samsung_SSD_850 size: 500.1GB temp: 0C
ID-2: /dev/sdb model: ST2000LM015 size: 2000.4GB temp: 39C
ID-3: USB /dev/sdc model: EFRX size: 6001.2GB temp: 0C
ID-4: USB /dev/sdd model: 2105 size: 6001.2GB temp: 0C
ID-5: USB /dev/sde model: EFRX size: 6001.2GB temp: 0C
ID-6: USB /dev/sdg model: EFRX size: 3000.6GB temp: 0C
ID-7: USB /dev/sdh model: EFRX size: 3000.6GB temp: 0C
ID-8: USB /dev/sdf model: 41AS size: 2000.4GB temp: 0C
Partition: ID-1: / size: 31G used: 11G (39%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda4
ID-2: /home size: 202G used: 18G (10%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda6
ID-3: swap-1 size: 52.33GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sda5
RAID: No RAID devices: /proc/mdstat, md_mod kernel module present
Sensors: System Temperatures: cpu: 51.0C mobo: N/A gpu: 0.0:56C
Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu: 2600
Info: Processes: 352 Uptime: 3:13 Memory: 7671.4/24064.7MB Init: systemd runlevel: 5 Gcc sys: 5.4.0
Client: Shell (bash 4.3.481) inxi: 2.2.35