Thanks for the response. > What is causing all the interrupts? Any idea, how I can find that? >Some USB device? What devices > are connected to the computer? I have 2 USB ports ( 1 is free, another is used by a mouse). I have one pcmcia lan card, cd r/w, floppy disk, other than that nothing special. I am attaching output of dmesg command. >What services are running? I am attaching result of ps -efl command >Try > shutting services off until you find what is causing the problem. I will try that next Regards, Amit. On Wed, 08 Dec 2004 09:10:05 -0700, Robin Laing <Robin.Laing@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Amit Rana wrote: > > > > 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 > > I am no expert but looking at vmstat, I noticed that there are 1041 > interrupts received and 390 context switches. On my system > (workstation) I have 7 interrupts and 17 context switches. On my > workstation I have seti-boinc running and has been up for 25 days. > > Also i/o waiting is at 73%. Something is making allot of calls to the > processor and thus loading it down. > > What is causing all the interrupts? Some USB device? What devices > are connected to the computer? What services are running? Try > shutting services off until you find what is causing the problem. > > -- > Robin Laing > Instrumentation Technologist Voice: 1.403.544.4762 > Military Engineering Section FAX: 1.403.544.4704 > Defence R&D Canada - Suffield Email: Robin.Laing@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > PO Box 4000, Station Main WWW:http://www.suffield.drdc-rddc.gc.ca > Medicine Hat, AB, T1A 8K6 > Canada >
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