On Mon, 2009-11-09 at 19:03 -0600, cnbiz850 wrote: > "top" shows that this particular program (called special.exe) taking a > lot of CPU and memory during change of focus as I mentioned > originally. > > It doesn't use much swap space as my 4GB RAM is not depleted. > Your RAM will be full because Linux uses any spare RAM for disk buffers. Any swapping can slow things down a lot. > I will try to use sysstat, but I am not to sure what to look for. > man sarq man pidstat Use pidstat to look for any processes that are generating major faults when paging (these are disk accesses - minor faults are not a problem). Use "-p ALL -r" options to see paging for all active processes. Be sure to turn on thread monitoring for pidstat (use the "-t -u" options to see CPU usage for all threads in all active processes). > I suspect more that it has to do with Wine's handling of GUI and > graphics. Anyone please advise some specifics about it. > If its a problem in wine this may show up as additional processes that burn CPU. pidstat will show that. Martin
