Somebody in the thread at some point said: > 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. I've never seen Konsole lag on typing. > 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? 0.3% of your CPU and 1.0% of your memory usage is unusually light for xorg, if anything. What does the top line of top say, for load avg, and the third line for "%id"? Also, what does $ cat /proc/interrupts say? Another cool new tool is powertop, it exposes who is waking the processor out of idle and how often, I would yum install that and paste what the results are -- be aware moving your mouse will skew them heavily. -Andy
