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 http://lyricslist.com/ http://what-is-what.com/ -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list