Hi, I shifted to FC3 last week and since then my system is working SO slow. P4-M 1.8, 512MB RAM Load Average is mostly 2+, RAM also get used free soon. Following is the output of top, free, vmstat commands when I was only running firefox and 1 terminal [root@localhost ~]# free -m total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 503 488 15 0 108 141 -/+ buffers/cache: 238 265 Swap: 1019 0 1019 [root@localhost Desktop]# vmstat procs -----------memory---------- ---swap-- -----io---- --system-- ----cpu---- r b swpd free buff cache si so bi bo in cs us sy id wa 1 2 276 6880 99140 178664 0 1 74 29 1041 390 7 2 19 73 [root@localhost ~]# top top - 11:30:38 up 2:21, 5 users, load average: 2.20, 2.20, 2.17 Tasks: 96 total, 1 running, 94 sleeping, 0 stopped, 1 zombie Cpu(s): 2.7% us, 0.7% sy, 0.3% ni, 0.0% id, 96.3% wa, 0.0% hi, 0.0% si Mem: 515756k total, 503528k used, 12228k free, 112132k buffers Swap: 1044184k total, 276k used, 1043908k free, 145024k cached PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 5011 root 15 0 37184 12m 19m S 2.3 2.6 0:03.36 gnome-terminal 4718 root 15 0 73980 20m 56m S 1.0 4.0 0:49.40 X 4659 root 34 19 2512 716 1344 D 0.7 0.1 0:05.93 updatedb 5088 root 17 0 1900 956 1664 R 0.3 0.2 0:00.02 top 1 root 16 0 2260 560 1408 S 0.0 0.1 0:01.09 init 2 root 34 19 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.01 ksoftirqd/0 3 root 5 -10 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.15 events/0 4 root 5 -10 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 khelper 5 root 5 -10 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kacpid 25 root 5 -10 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kblockd/0 26 root 15 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.12 khubd When I ran "time eclipse" output was real 10m42.974s user 0m41.593s sys 0m3.002s Other strange observations: - On the graphical login screen when I want to choose between gnome and kde, popup window which lets you choose either of the two comes in 5-10mins (this is on startup) Basically complete boot takes over 15mins. - Harddisk activity is never too much. - Another strange thing is when I log off from KDE I always see my gnome wall paper in the background. Is this right? fdisk -l isk /dev/hda: 30.0 GB, 30005821440 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 3648 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 1 4 32098+ de Dell Utility /dev/hda2 * 5 1464 11727450 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/hda3 1465 2412 7614810 c W95 FAT32 (LBA) /dev/hda4 2413 3648 9928170 f W95 Ext'd (LBA) /dev/hda5 2413 3192 6265318+ 83 Linux /dev/hda6 3193 3518 2618563+ 83 Linux /dev/hda7 3519 3648 1044193+ 82 Linux swap load average is always 2+ Any help in trying to figure out the problem will be highly appreciated
