On 7/30/05, Tony Nelson <tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > At 9:13 PM +0300 7/29/05, Dotan Cohen wrote: > >On 7/29/05, Tony Nelson <tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> I don't think this is a a swap problem. If it were, the process would be > >> out of memory, but instead it's using little memory but lots of CPU. > >> Prelink is supposed to be disk intensive, not CPU intensive, so maybe it's > >> a bug in prelink or something it uses. > >> ____________________________________________________________________ > >> TonyN.:' <mailto:tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > >> ' <http://www.georgeanelson.com/> > >> > > > >Really? Where would I begin to debug? In what logs should I start poking > >around? > > I wouldn't expect it to be logging anything (though I might be wrong -- do > you have any suddenly huge log files?). I think it's probably just stuck > in a loop ("hung"). In that case, the correct tool would be gdb, but it > would take lots of handholding (from someone with more experience than I) > for you to make that useful. > > One thing to look for is whether prelink is always running, even after you > kill it or reboot or whatever. Anything using 85% of the CPU will make > everything else slow. > > If you haven't run prelink for a long time maybe it just has a lot to do. > But I really expect that it would spend most of its time reading files, and > then writing them back out, not calculating stuff. > ____________________________________________________________________ > TonyN.:' <mailto:tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > ' <http://www.georgeanelson.com/> I just sat there for a minute and stared at top. I see that everythime Gmail goes and 'gets' new info (every half-minute or so), firefox jumps up to 70% CPU. Also, doing nothing, X sometimes jumps to 50% CPU. I don't know if this is normal, but I did notice it. I'm now maning and googleing the other processes I see in top. Interesting to know what really is going on in there. Dotan http://song-lirics.com/sl/artists.php/p Song Lirics
