On Mon, 2005-03-07 at 10:31 -0700, Robin Laing wrote: > Duncan Lithgow wrote: > > 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. > -- > Robin Laing > In top the < and > keys cause top to sort on different columns > will sort on the Mem info. Bob...
