On Mon, 5 Aug 2019, Peter wrote:
On 5/08/19 10:42 AM, Michael Hennebry wrote:
Mem: 2020144 1454904 76140 204764 489100 135004 Swap: 4883724 978480 3905244
free -h is generally more readable, but...
It's RAM. You basically have a total of 2G ram on the system, you have less than 500M available and are into swap by nearly 1G, so you're swapping heavily. 2G is enough for a minimal install but browsers such as firefox and chrome can easily use a lot of memory fast and trying to run one on a 2G system while doing an install at the same time will get you swapping and slow the system to a crawl.
To be clear, by "Centos 7 installation", I meant a PC on which Centos 7 was installed.
In any case, Centos 7 has not always been this slow. Presumably something has changed. I've been living with this for several months, but not forever. I can run compilers and stuff without an internet connection, so I could get some work done.
To get that output, I had free running in a loop and waited for the freeze before copy and pasting.
I wasn't surprised by the result. Occasionally top shows kswap0 (I think) in a D state.