Questions tagged [performance]
For questions concerning computer, or computer-related, performance. Please include metrics in your questions.
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How to optimize Win11 VM for MS Office only?
I'd like to set up a Windows 11 VM image only for running the latest MS Office (including online collaboration features). There are lots of guides out there on how to optimize VMs, but some ...
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Why is my CPU clock speed low and how can I increase my CPU speed and performance?
Whenever my CPU is under high or full load, the CPU clock speed drops below the base frequency. htop during high load:
I'm on a Dell Inspiron 15 5510 with an i7-11390H
neofetch output:
I have ...
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nginx website is extraordinarily slow but only for my network
My personal website has been extremely slow for only me and my network. If i connect to it via cellular data on my phone, or a laptop at another building, it is as fast as any other website, but when ...
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Windows 10 on Ryzen 1700x starts processes slowly
I have Windows 10 (22H2, 10.0.19045) installed on the following system:
Ryzen 1700x
32 GB of RAM
1 TB Samsung 970 EVO (M.2)
Windows Defender virus scanner.
About 2 months ago, the system started ...
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Why the download traffic towards my IP address is so slow? How to solve it?
This question has a lot of context and details so please read to the end! I need an answer that will guide me to solving my paradoxical problem.
I've seen people asking questions about slow speeds/...
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Processor frequency goes down with load, temperature low, TDP not reached [duplicate]
TL;DR: Xeon E5-2630 does not reach even the TDP, turbo boosts the clock only when idle, reduces when under load and stays cool as cucumber, despite removing all limits except for the built-in thermal ...
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Artificially slow down a vhost or php-fpm setup in Apache
Is there a good way to artificially slow down a Virtualhost (or PHP-FPM) in Apache 2.4?
By slow it down I mean "make it barely usable" - say 15 seconds to load a simple page. Ideally I ...
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PC slow when one ssd is at 100% usage despite having two ssds
When I’m downloading something, or doing anything that makes my C drive get to 100% usage my system slows down. I could understand that happening if I had one ssd but I have two, and both have decent ...
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Asus Windows 10 performance very slow and unresponsive (stuck in a flickering glitchy loop)
I'm dealing with an Asus Windows 10 laptop here.
The trouble started when my dad downloaded a PDF reader (All PDF Reader) on it to read some files. He tried to install it, but it didn't seem like it ...
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Very slow connection on some websites using VPN
Some websites like YouTube are filtered in my country. I create a VPN using two servers, one in my country and one in Germany. I'm using cascading and a tunnel is performed from Germany to my county.
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Windows 10 is unbearably slow on a HDD
I have two laptops from 2013, one from HP and one from Acer. They have one thing in common, the HDD is always at a constant 100%. The hard drives aren't bad, when I don't run Windows on them and use ...
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Optimizing a mono-CPU application in a docker environment (multi-core vs multi-instances)
I have a simple, CPU-bound, mono-CPU application running in a docker container.
Indeed it fully uses a single CPU on the instance when processing work.
As I understand, there are two main approaches ...
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Strange HD Tune benchmark for Western Digital WD20SPZX (2.5" 2-TB hard disk)
I am getting these strange looking HD Tune benchmark results on a Western Digital WD20SPZX 2.5" 2-TB hard disk.
The first picture is from the day I got it, and the others are on later dates as ...
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SanDisk External SSD Running at Slow Speeds
I recently purchased a new external 1TB SSD from SanDisk (SDSSDE30-1T00-G25). However, I am having an issue with its speed as it is limited to USB-2 speed, which is around 40MB/s.
Here is what I have ...
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MacBook Pro Late 2011 Running Extremely Slow After Upgrade to SSD
I have a late 2011 MacBook Pro that's currently running macOS Sierra 10.12.6 version. I updated the HDD(500GB) hard drive to an SSD Samsung 860 EVO(500GB) solid state hard drive. I had originally ...
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How to force Unity Editor/TestRunner to run at full speed when in background?
SOLUTION: The background test run slowdow described below no longer occurs in Unity 2023.1.0b14 (beta) and 2023.2.0a12 (alpha). I wrote a script that speeds up TestRunner by ~30% in general in my use ...
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Websites don't always load immediately
I'm experiencing a strange issue in all of my browsers (Opera, Chrome, Edge) by websites not always loading immediately. Sometimes they do, other times I have to wait a couple of seconds. I can see ...
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does intel TDP-UP effect performance? [duplicate]
I got a linux laptop with i5 8250u which got max tdp of 25w and normal tdp of 15w, after some reserch I found that if you decrease the tdp of a cpu it's going to get slower. But consider this, if you ...
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How does multi-core Intel Turbo Boost work? [duplicate]
I have a Linux laptop with Intel i5-8250u on it, and the Intel CPU support Intel Turbo Boost. With some reaserch it looks like you can acually Turbo Boost all the cores at the same time, but you can't ...
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Windows Server 2016 slow boot (Over 15 minutes in Boot-PreSession Init-Phase)
we are currently having problems with an Windows Server 2016 who takes aproximate 20-30 minutes to boot. Most of the time the server is in the Boot Pre Session Init Phase and shows the following ...
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lenovo thinkpad t450s hardware (screen and performance) issue
I have an issue with Lenovo t450s laptop, and I'll describe it next.
Under Windows 10 (booted from SSD) I have image flickering near animated and moving objects. I can barely load any application due ...
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AMD Ryzen 7 3750H running below base speed
I noticed that my laptop was getting very sloppy when it was not plugged in. So I dug up the metrics and found that my CPU was running at 1.38GHz, which well below it's base speed of 2.30GHz.
And the ...
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How to transfer data between two Windows personal computers?
I have two Windows 11 desktop computers that are next to each other about two meters apart.
I want to transfer files between them in the form of copy and paste, for example copy-paste files from ...
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Why does my Windows install use over twice as much RAM as my open processes? (8+ GB used) [duplicate]
Something I've noticed on many completely different computers I've owned and across Windows 10 and 11 is that my RAM usage never seems to really add up to what's actually being used. It's never really ...
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Computer running slow/weird. I'm not sure what the issue is
I have an OMEN 30L Desktop PC GT13-1000a. I've had it for about a year, playing videogames as well as doing schoolwork, and its been running very well up until recently. I have certain problems that ...
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Do you think 3200 MHz 16 GB master RAM plus 3200 MHz 4 GB slave RAM (20GB total) will cause any bottleneck?
Some genius product developers decided to put 8 GB of ram to RTX 3060 laptop. I know that Ryzen 5 5600h CPU of this laptop is good enough to not create any bottleneck for RTX 3060 but I am trying to ...
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Counter-intuitive performance issue using Samsung T5 SSD on M2 pro Macmini
M2pro 16gb Mac Mini, OSX 13.2.1
BenQ PD32220u Monitor (with USB interfaces)
Samsung T5 SSD 2TB (USB 3.1 gen2)
I've recently upgraded my workstation, have been using a T5 External drive for some time ...
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System process high idle CPU usage ( 30 - 40 percent )
I am using windows 11 canary build, this issue is since windows 10, the system process uses half of my CPU as soon as I connect my pc to the internet, it makes the fan whirr fast and gaming ...
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i7-12700K inexplicably turning off p-cores periodically for long running tasks
I like to run lots of heavy computation on my computer (like factoring large integers and other computational number theory), and my 17-12700K is usually pretty good at it.
But sometimes the task ...
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Some applications will launch very slowly after closing a game (Windows 10)
I have a very weird problem. When I close games, some applications will take noticeably long to launch.
For example, if I close the game (MOHAA) and then start VLC application, it will be extremely ...
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Dell Latitude E5450 runs (Minecraft) better on battery
I have a Dell Latitude E5450 (Windows 11, Intel Core i5-5300U, Nvidia GeForce 830M, 16GB) and have noticed that in sometimes it runs better on battery than plugged in, specificly playing Minecraft (...
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New PC running very slowly
I recently built a new PC with fairly high end specs, but it runs incredibly slowly. By slow, I mean 30 second input lag in games, it takes about 5 seconds to load windows explorer, dragging windows ...
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With the cheapest possible graphics card for a super fast processor, will the processor have maximum performance?
If I get the cheapest possible graphics card for a super fast processor will the processor have maximum performance?
I need a graphics card due to the fact that Ryzen 7700x does not have good drivers ...
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slow local network wireless connection between linux laptops
I have two laptops on the same network in my house. I was trying to share files from one to the other via a web server I developed myself(static file sharing). I found it slow and tested the ...
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Soulcalibur VI is suspiciously slow for my GPU after I switch to Windows 11
I played Soulcalibur VI. It plays well. Then I increase the resolution to 3840 2160. It's slow. But for a while, I like it slow.
Then I upgrade to windows 11. It's still slow. I change resolution to ...
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Why Is the Display of a Raster in ARCGIS so Slow?
I would like to improve the time it takes to display raster data to the screen in ArcGIS. I work with a lot of DEM's and Lidar data and sometimes I will wait for 3 to 5 minutes just to display this ...
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How to measure standard compute load of a process
I want to measure the CPU load of an application I am developing. I need to measure the CPU load in a processor and system neutral way. So, for example, if top shows the process uses 277% CPU at peak ...
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Troubleshooting of low performance of console programs
When I use neovim in alacritty in weston, it works slow (low FPS). However, this problem is observed only in this particular bunch of programs. There is no problem if:
Running neovim in other ...
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Why does the performance of a hard drive with ext4 vary over time?
I have a strange problem with a Western Digital HDD.
The performance of this drive varies pretty significantly over time. The observed range goes from ~50MB/s to more than 100 MB/s. The performance is ...
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Poor performance viewing video from USB Video device in VLC
In VLC, on Windows 10, I'm having trouble viewing 1080p video at reasonable frame rates from a USB video capture device (HDMI source).
When I use OBS Studio, everything works fine: The video is at ...
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Intel I5 12500H underperforming
I have recently purchased a new laptop with Intel I5 12500H inside. I bought it as a replacement for my older laptop that had Ryzen 7 5700U inside.
Most benchmarks show that Intel should outperform ...
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Optimizing Firefox I/O regarding storage-sync-v2.sqlite-wal file (storage-sync-v2.sqlite database write ahead log file)
In my experience, Firefox creates a storage-sync-v2.sqlite database in each of its profile folders. This appears to happen even if profile syncing is disabled (and has never been enabled).
What's odd ...
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Slow Context menu in windows 11
Context menu in W11 is so sluggish (specially on video files) i uninstalled everything that i suspected to be the cause and used the tool called "This Is Windows 11" to uninstall all the ...
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Bookmarklets executes slow in the background
I have a bookmarklet that jumps down (basically sends end repetitiously) to scroll down the feed on web sites that uses an "infinite feed" (e.g., Facebook, Quora). For obvious reasons, most ...
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Lenovo E15 G3 with Windows 11 extremely slow
I recently bought a 3rd generation Lenovo Thinkpad E15 (512GB SSD variant) with Windows 11 Pro. It has 16 GB of RAM, and a Ryzen 7 processor.
For several months, Windows Explorer has been extremely ...
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which DisplayPorts should I use, integrated graphics card's ports or NVIDIA's ports?
My Dell Precision 3630 (Intel Core Processor i7-9700K (8 Core, 8T, 12 MB Cache,3.6 GHz, 4.90 GHz Turbo, 95 W ) Intel UHD Graphics 630) has two integrated graphic card displayport ports. It also has 4 ...
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Can SSD performance degrade when one partition is low on space but, as a whole, SSD has ample free space
Will SSD read/write performance decrease for a partition that is low on space if the drive itself has ample free space?
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should i create swap space in my laptop?
My Laptop has i7 10th gen + 8GB ram
NVIDIA GeForce MX230 2Gb graphic card
my daily usage inteliiJ (3-4 instance), chrome (15-20 tabs), postman (1 instance), VS code(2 instance),
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CPU slows down until I hibernate my PC and restart
I have been having this strange issue for a month.
Everything will be working smoothly, but then my CPU slows down completely.
CPU/RAM/Disk usage vitals are completely fine during it. But everything ...
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Windows laptop suddenly started lagging and working excruciatingly slowly
My laptop specs:
Intel i9-9980HK
32 GB RAM
1 TB SSD
Intel UHD Graphics 630/Nvidia RTX 2060
Windows 11
The laptop suddenly started lagging and operating extremely slowly. Even shifting the cursor to a ...
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