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Most of my processes are "sleeping". Is this normal?

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I have just uograded from Linux Mint 20.1 to 20.2. When I checked the processes with my System Monitor I found about 9 0ut of 10 processes were in sleeping mode. Is this normal?

Thanks for any responses.

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Re: Most of my processes are "sleeping". Is this normal?

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The only sense in which it's not normal is that it would if you displayed any and all processes generally be 99 out of a 100. As in, yes, sure, and this would've been no different on 20.1.
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Re: Most of my processes are "sleeping". Is this normal?

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Hi Rene

Great - glad to see it is normal.

Thanks very much!
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Re: Most of my processes are "sleeping". Is this normal?

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Which kernel ?
With 20.1 I see that after working on my internet browsers for a long time when I want to use a Libre Office Calc opened sheet it takes a very long time to have it to respond
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Re: Most of my processes are "sleeping". Is this normal?

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Menard wrote: Sat Sep 18, 2021 4:56 am Which kernel ? With 20.1 I see that after working on my internet browsers for a long time when I want to use a Libre Office Calc opened sheet it takes a very long time to have it to respond
That's not related to process state though; you have in your case undoubtedly simply swapped out LibreOffice Calc while letting your browser(s) gobble up all free memory. It's also unrelated to kernel: if you have different behaviour on 20.1 than on <something else> you will likely be experiencing a memory leak on 20.1; some process / browser growing too large.
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Re: Most of my processes are "sleeping". Is this normal?

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Before you open calc the next time open the System Monitor/Resources and
monitor the ram and swap usage as you open calc
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Re: Most of my processes are "sleeping". Is this normal?

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rene wrote: Sat Sep 18, 2021 12:22 pm
That's not related to process state though; you have in your case undoubtedly simply swapped out LibreOffice Calc while letting your browser(s) gobble up all free memory. It's also unrelated to kernel: if you have different behaviour on 20.1 than on <something else> you will likely be experiencing a memory leak on 20.1; some process / browser growing too large.
I think I ve had this with 20.0 too, but not previously with 19.3, never, even not a beginning of this
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Re: Most of my processes are "sleeping". Is this normal?

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I've noticed some (cinnamon-, I believe) memory leak reports here on the forum with 20.x; 20.0 certainly and if I'm not mistaken, none with 20.2. I'll admit I'm not in fact even sure whether or not on Mint Cinnamon updates to the same version on 20 or 20.1 as it would on 20.2; would expect so but certainly if not, upgrading to 20.2 might be good.

FWIW, I on 20.2 show

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rene@p55m:~$ dpkg -l "*cinnamon*"
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name                               Version      Architecture Description
+++-==================================-============-============-==========================================================================
ii  cinnamon                           5.0.5+uma    amd64        Modern Linux desktop
un  cinnamon-capplets-data             <none>       <none>       (no description available)
ii  cinnamon-common                    5.0.5+uma    all          Cinnamon desktop (Common data files)
ii  cinnamon-control-center            5.0.2+uma    amd64        utilities to configure the Cinnamon desktop
ii  cinnamon-control-center-data       5.0.2+uma    all          configuration applets for Cinnamon - data files
ii  cinnamon-control-center-dbg        5.0.2+uma    amd64        utilities to configure the Cinnamon desktop - debug symbols
ii  cinnamon-dbg                       5.0.5+uma    amd64        Debugging symbols for the Cinnamon desktop
ii  cinnamon-desktop-data              5.0.0+uma    all          Common files for Cinnamon desktop apps
un  cinnamon-doc                       <none>       <none>       (no description available)
ii  cinnamon-l10n                      5.0.2        all          Translation files for the Cinnamon desktop
ii  cinnamon-screensaver               5.0.6+uma    amd64        Cinnamon screen saver and locker
un  cinnamon-screensaver-pam-helper    <none>       <none>       (no description available)
un  cinnamon-screensaver-webkit-plugin <none>       <none>       (no description available)
un  cinnamon-screensaver-x-plugin      <none>       <none>       (no description available)
ii  cinnamon-session                   5.0.1+uma    amd64        Cinnamon Session Manager - Minimal runtime
ii  cinnamon-session-common            5.0.1+uma    all          Cinnamon Session Manager - common files
ii  cinnamon-settings-daemon           5.0.4+uma    amd64        daemon handling the Cinnamon session settings
un  cinnamon-themes                    <none>       <none>       (no description available)
un  cinnamon-translations              <none>       <none>       (no description available)
ii  gir1.2-cinnamondesktop-3.0         5.0.0+uma    amd64        Introspection data for CinnamonDesktop
ii  libcinnamon-control-center1:amd64  5.0.2+uma    amd64        utilities to configure the Cinnamon desktop
ii  libcinnamon-desktop-dbg:amd64      5.0.0+uma    amd64        Cinnamon shared utility library - debugging symbols
ii  libcinnamon-desktop4:amd64         5.0.0+uma    amd64        Cinnamon shared utility library.
ii  libcinnamon-menu-3-0               5.0.0+uma    amd64        Cinnamon implementation of the freedesktop menu specification
ii  libcinnamon-menu-3-0-dbg           5.0.0+uma    amd64        Cinnamon implementation of the freedesktop menu specification
un  mint-artwork-cinnamon              <none>       <none>       (no description available)
un  mint-artwork-debian-cinnamon       <none>       <none>       (no description available)
ii  mint-info-cinnamon                 2021.05.25   all          Necessary information about the Linux Mint release and edition.
ii  mint-meta-cinnamon                 2021.05.25   all          Set of packages installed by default in the Cinnamon edition of Linux Mint
un  mint-meta-cinnamon-dvd             <none>       <none>       (no description available)
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Re: Most of my processes are "sleeping". Is this normal?

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OK, thank you
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