My apologies if you get two copies of this message. I wrote it in a hurry the first time and did it before I had confirmed my subscription, so it's waiting for the moderator's approval. Also, I forgot to include some system information the first time, so here it is again with some additional information:
Recently, I started having problems with my disk drive thrashing,
but I can't figure out why. It happens even after a reboot,
shortly after X starts, so I think it has something to do with X.
It started after I added some new fonts (which have since been
deleted since I thought that might be the problem), but deleting
them didn't fix the problem. So, I'm not sure if that has
anything to do with the problem. The swap is practically unused (99% free). Top shows:
08:30:54 up 1:27, 4 users, load average: 2.67, 2.65, 2.36 86 processes: 83 sleeping, 3 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped CPU states: cpu user nice system irq softirq iowait idle total 15.1% 0.0% 2.1% 1.1% 0.0% 81.4% 0.0% Mem: 384288k av, 376960k used, 7328k free, 0k shrd, 63960k buff 286348k actv, 68208k in_d, 1904k in_c Swap: 947816k av, 11004k used, 936812k free 140412k cached
PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME CPU COMMAND 3984 root 16 0 59460 25M 3456 R 5.9 6.7 2:25 0 X 11295 rbignall 15 0 53980 52M 20300 S 4.3 14.0 1:17 0 mozilla-bin 6421 rbignall 15 0 12684 12M 10412 S 3.7 3.2 0:49 0 appletproxy 4129 rbignall 15 0 13828 13M 11232 R 1.1 3.5 0:02 0 kdeinit 1997 root 15 0 0 0 0 DW 0.5 0.0 0:17 0 kjournald 4114 rbignall 15 0 12676 12M 10280 S 0.1 3.2 0:04 0 kdeinit 4120 rbignall 15 0 16180 15M 12792 S 0.1 4.2 0:15 0 kdeinit
I am running Redhat WS 3 which was fully updated (until Friday's
updates which I'm in the process of downloading), 384 MB RAM +
about 1GB swap. I'm using KDE which I'd been using for about a
week before this started. I booted up in runlevel 3 and had no thrashing, which leads me to suspect even more it has something to do with X or KDE.
I am at a loss as to how to figure out what is causing the thrashing, let alone how to fix it. Can someone please help?
Thanks, Rosina
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