Re: CPU slow after running web browser, any command to recover it back again soon?

[Selim T. Erdoğan <selim@alumni.cs.utexas.edu>]

On Sat, Jul 11, 2015 at 09:34:57PM +0100, Rodolfo Medina wrote:
> 
> Thanks.  But maybe I was meaning something different.  I simply want to speed
> up the natural process through which the machine itself gets back to working
> normally as before, like someone that breaths with difficulty after a
> tremendous scare and it takes time to get breathing normally again.  I was
> asking if any command exists, to shorten that.  I though `sync' was it, but
> isn't.


You could try

echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches

after the sync command.


> > 2015-07-11 18:04 GMT+02:00 Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com>:
> >
> >     Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com> writes:
> >     
> >     > After closing Midori, my old PC for minutes and minutes remains very
> >     > very slow. Then gradually, slowly, painfully, only after five or ten
> >     > minutes it starts working normally again.
> >     
> >     Then, to try to recover it, I do:
> >     
> >     $ sync
> >     
> >     , but this is not enough. Is there any command to get the processor back
> >     soon in its speed such as it was before opening the web browser?
> >     Apologises for not having the right technical terms...