Xfce is very slow, part 2

[Ralf Mardorf]

PS: Right now there I received something interesting about a similar
issue from Debian users, it's not available by the archive right now:

-------- Forwarded Message --------
Cc: debian-user at lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Number of Procs
Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2014 22:47:11 +0000


> Sometimes, the system raises a lot of processes, causing considerable
> delay to respond any input action. This moment, there are 312
> processes running (in a personal laptop - Debian testing).

In your case it's probably memory issue, but in general you might find
those 2 blog posts helpful to trace what actually causing issues on
your machine:

http://larryn.blogspot.co.uk/2013/12/even-more-threads-counting.html
http://larryn.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/number-of-threads-per-state.html

They shows how to count threads (in case you have multi-threaded
application) having impact on machine performance (running on waiting
on I/O).

http://lists.debian.org/CAC7-vpAT2SthOz3eVzy9fZc-NPOJxG83MyN3_OPEJuBZnrQ@mail.gmail.com