On Thu, 2005-03-10 at 23:12 +1100, Rodd Clarkson wrote: > > > > Watching my CPU use, I get a spike every 5 seconds (a cheap one thousand > > > > and one, two thousand and two quess). [...snip...] > I don't know what you would define as crippled, but I'm on a 4 day old > Dell Inspiron 8600 with a 2GHz processor, 768MB Ram. > > Interestingly, and this may have nothing to do with it, but even though > I have a 780MB swap partition and fstab seems to have picked it up, it > doesn't seem to be 'enabled'. I mention this because I've heard that > the kernel likes to have 'some' swap space. > > fdisk /dev/hda shows: > > Disk /dev/hda: 60.0 GB, 60011642880 bytes > 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 7296 cylinders > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes > > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > /dev/hda1 1 6 48163+ de Dell Utility > /dev/hda2 7 372 2939895 7 HPFS/NTFS > /dev/hda3 373 715 2755147+ db CP/M / CTOS / ... > /dev/hda4 716 7296 52861882+ 5 Extended > /dev/hda5 * 716 725 80293+ 83 Linux > /dev/hda6 726 1745 8193118+ 83 Linux > /dev/hda7 1746 1843 787153+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris > /dev/hda8 1844 5158 26627706 83 Linux > > less /etc/fstab shows: > > # This file is edited by fstab-sync - see 'man fstab-sync' for details > LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults 1 1 > LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults 1 2 > none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0 > none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 > LABEL=/home /home ext3 defaults 1 2 > none /proc proc defaults 0 0 > none /sys sysfs defaults 0 0 > LABEL=SWAP-hda7 swap swap defaults 0 0 > > less /proc/meminfo shows > > MemTotal: 774344 kB > MemFree: 11500 kB > Buffers: 26664 kB > Cached: 255784 kB > SwapCached: 0 kB > Active: 381484 kB > Inactive: 166756 kB > HighTotal: 0 kB > HighFree: 0 kB > LowTotal: 774344 kB > LowFree: 11500 kB > SwapTotal: 0 kB > SwapFree: 0 kB > Dirty: 0 kB > Writeback: 0 kB > Mapped: 324336 kB > Slab: 201824 kB > CommitLimit: 387172 kB > Committed_AS: 998888 kB > PageTables: 4052 kB > VmallocTotal: 245752 kB > VmallocUsed: 3332 kB > VmallocChunk: 242204 kB > HugePages_Total: 0 > HugePages_Free: 0 > Hugepagesize: 4096 kB I may be out of touch since I'm not using a rawhide kernel, but I don't believe swap space supports an e2label, and would be surprised if that has changed. Try changing your /etc/fstab like so: /dev/hda7 swap swap defaults 0 0 Maybe someone more knowledgeable could point out whether this discrepancy would result in the symptoms you're observing. -- Paul W. Frields, RHCE
