Troubleshooting • Re: Raspberry Pi 4B has become glacially slow

Thanks. The load is rather light. APT is the main process right now, but it should have finished in a few minutes at the most. Instead APT has dragged out its activity for some hours already.

Code:

# uptime 21:17:14 up  6:28, 19 users,  load average: 2.16, 2.26, 2.26top - 21:18:12 up  6:29, 19 users,  load average: 2.21, 2.26, 2.26Tasks: 287 total,   1 running, 281 sleeping,   4 stopped,   1 zombie%Cpu(s):  2.2 us,  2.2 sy,  0.0 ni, 67.4 id, 28.3 wa,  0.0 hi,  0.0 si,  0.0 st MiB Mem :   3795.8 total,     56.7 free,    646.6 used,   3220.8 buff/cache     MiB Swap:   2048.0 total,   2048.0 free,      0.0 used.   3149.2 avail Mem     PID USER      PR  NI    VIRT    RES    SHR S  %CPU  %MEM     TIME+ COMMAND    30112 root      20   0   27032   8384   7300 S   9.1   0.2   0:02.72 apt        44871 root      20   0   15608   4844   2776 R   9.1   0.1   0:00.02 top            1 root      20   0   25388  14816  10440 S   0.0   0.4   2:11.92 systemd  

I'll be able to get a new microSD card on the next shopping trip later this coming week and hope that will speed things up.

Why so many users?

Edit:

Mine:

top - 20:34:36 up 20:34, 1 user, load average: 0.27, 0.43, 0.45
Tasks: 219 total, 1 running, 218 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
%Cpu(s): 0.0 us, 0.0 sy, 0.0 ni,100.0 id, 0.0 wa, 0.0 hi, 0.0 si, 0.0 st
MiB Mem : 8058.4 total, 3493.3 free, 2308.2 used, 2542.3 buff/cache
MiB Swap: 2048.0 total, 2048.0 free, 0.0 used. 5750.2 avail Mem

Statistics: Posted by Olydnad_SWE — Sat Aug 01, 2026 6:30 pm

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