I won't start posting many details because I can't work out what is relevant. The symptoms are:
a.) logging off is taking close to 30 seconds, even if i've hardly used any apps. this is also true of the root user.
b.) nope, there are no network users.
c.) nautilus shows up as using 7.7MB and if i halt or kill it a nautilus windows pops up located on /home. That process then has the same properties. It even did this one time when I had logged in and only used firefox - never even started nautilus. It shows up in 'System Monitor" as Memory: 53.3MB, X Server Memory: 7.7MB, Nice: 0, ID: 6101, Status: Sleeping, RSS: 21.6MB, Shared: 10.4MB
d.) The little gnome applet shows "processor 100%" and everything takes for ever.
e.) evolution gets mail only every 15 minutes.
What can I do to extract useful information?
Hmm, I just thought to use winetools to kill all wine processes - that's brought processor down to normal levels.
nope that's not it - the processor usage drops as soon as i click on the gnome drawer holding my wine apps. and rockets again as soon as i close the drawer. killing all wine processes doesn't help.
Duncan
This is only a start.
What does "top" show?
In a terminal, type in top and read the data in the first 7 lines. the "load average" is one indication. Top will also show what process and how much resources it is using underneath.
I run SETI@home it uses about 95% of my CPU.
Look at the number of stopped processes and any waiting for io as these are indications of a bottle neck in your system.
I learned a long time ago that memory being used is no indication of how much memory is actually in use for a particular process. Even on an idle machine, most memory can be in usage.
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Robin Laing
