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. -- Michael hennebry at web.cs.ndsu.NoDak.edu "Sorry but your password must contain an uppercase letter, a number, a haiku, a gang sign, a heiroglyph, and the blood of a virgin." -- someeecards