Performances issues with Zorin Lite

[Avocadocs]

Hello,

I switched from Zorin Core to Lite but even after this I have performances issue with my laptop. It's faster than Zorin Core and windows 10 but sometimes I work for 10 mins and it crashes I have no idea why, all is froze and after fews mins it doesn't unfreeze so I have to restart using power button which is annoying.

I wonder how I can improve that. It looks like if an app is taking too much ressources it doesn't pause or stop process so even OS itself has problem.

I noticed that brave browser was taking a lot of RAM it might be the reason?

After some people told me I switched all apps I could from flatpak/snap to .deb install but still not better...

Thanks for your time

[Luca_Pavan]

As you can see on your screenshot, you have a ton of crash reporters running, so try opening their corresponding app and disabling problems reporting and crashes handling options to see if performance improves.

[eid]

@Avocadocs

I noticed that brave browser was taking a lot of RAM it might be the reason?

I think that too, your ram 4 gig, and a lot of opened tabs in brave or chrome browsers consume your ram.
to avoid that , u need to use extension in your browser to sleep unused tabs. or you can use (nohang) tool , it's good tool that notify u to close unused tabs or unused apps before craching.

Desktop freezes when I have too many tabs open

Another thing you can try: chrome://settings/performance Enable Memory Saver. That'll dump any tabs from memory that sit idle for a long enough time, and reload the web page on that tab once you bring that tab to the forefront. That way, you can have as many tabs open as you like, and you won't exhaust your free memory. As to swap size, give us the output of the command: swapon --show ... as you're using your browser normally. If you've got a high number under "Used", you likely need to i…

[Luca_Pavan]

By the way, for those who know, is it normal to have so many identical or similar processes apparently doing the same thing with such high memory usage?

[Aravisian]

A test for RAM that is quite simple would be to monitor RAM usage in real time, then clear it out when it surpasses 85% using:

[HOW TO] free up RAM while working

I just discovered this one... Sometimes, your RAM fills while you are working and it is not a good time to reboot. With three commands, you can clear out some RAM: sudo sync sudo sysctl -w vm.drop_caches=3 IMPORTANT!: You must run the following command again, or information currently in RAM that you are using and need could be lost sudo sync After running all three of the above, you should see a marked increase in Available RAM.

@Luca_Pavan

By the way, for those who know, is it normal to have so many identical or similar processes apparently doing the same thing with such high memory usage?

It can be, yes. Check the PID.
But it also is worth checking Brave Browser for a memory leak (Which would be an unsurprising outcome...)

[Avocadocs]

Sorry for late response, I changed of somputer and now I have 8gb of ram and better processor and all is fine