On 18/08/07, Andy Green <andy@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > So, is the system using 1024 MB of RAM, or only 256? It is dead slow, > > and I easily outtype it (I wait to see my letters appear on the > > Outtype it using which software? Anything from a new Firefox session, to Kate, to Konsole. > > screen). All software is _slow_, especially digikam which we use a > > lot. Note that mplayer video and mp3 files in Amarok play fine. > > $ cat /proc/meminfo > MemTotal: 2051868 kB MemTotal: 1000536 kB That makes me feel a bit better, thanks. > Perhaps it is more likely cpuspeed has slowed the processor down due to > it being mostly idle? Use > > $ cat /proc/cpuinfo > > and see what speed it reported there after the machine is idle for some > time. cpu MHz : 1300.080 So, that's what it should be. Furthering investigation of the slow computer, I see that Xorg stays very high in top, with values like this: 2471 root 15 0 50440 9.8m 4368 S 0.3 1.0 0:57.83 Xorg Is that considered excessive? What else could be causing this thing to run so slow? Dotan Cohen http://lyricslist.com/ http://what-is-what.com/
