On 18/08/07, Andy Green <andy@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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.
Firefox really lags, but I can still outtype Konsole.
> > 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"?
root@localhost ~]# top
top - 16:55:40 up 3:07, 1 user, load average: 0.66, 0.63, 0.50
Tasks: 97 total, 1 running, 96 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu(s): 14.2%us, 0.7%sy, 0.0%ni, 84.8%id, 0.0%wa, 0.3%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st
Mem: 1000536k total, 959736k used, 40800k free, 136488k buffers
Swap: 2441872k total, 0k used, 2441872k free, 606724k cached
> Also, what does
> $ cat /proc/interrupts
[root@localhost ~]# cat /proc/interrupts
CPU0
0: 11347769 XT-PIC-XT timer
1: 10106 XT-PIC-XT i8042
2: 0 XT-PIC-XT cascade
5: 205614 XT-PIC-XT ohci_hcd:usb1, Ensoniq AudioPCI
6: 5 XT-PIC-XT floppy
8: 1 XT-PIC-XT rtc
9: 0 XT-PIC-XT acpi
10: 1 XT-PIC-XT ehci_hcd:usb3
11: 49366 XT-PIC-XT ohci_hcd:usb2, eth0
12: 132565 XT-PIC-XT i8042
14: 77041 XT-PIC-XT ide0
15: 197382 XT-PIC-XT ide1
NMI: 0
LOC: 0
ERR: 0
MIS: 0
> 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
Couldn't find powertop:
[root@localhost ~]# yum search powertop
Loading "installonlyn" plugin
Setting up repositories
Reading repository metadata in from local files
No Matches found
[root@localhost ~]#
I'll download a tarball if need be, though.
Dotan Cohen
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