On Tuesday 27 June 2006 09:17, Josef Lowder wrote: > Yesterday, I noticed my system beginning to slow down quite significantly > and I can't figure out why. I've tried rebooting and seemed to get some > improvement, but it is now still much slower than it has been working. On Tuesday 27 June 2006 10:44 am, Dennis Kibbe wrote: > You might start by posting the output of "df -h" > This will tell us if a partition is starting to approach 100% capacity. Here is the result: $ df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda6 9.7G 7.4G 1.9G 81% / /dev/hdb1 4.0G 1.3G 2.7G 32% /mnt/windows Also, FoulDragon@aol.com wrote: > I might look at top (sort with capital-M) and see if something's > eating a lot of memory. If you're near the point where swap-out > occurs, it may not be cacheing the apps, so they don't load as > fast as they otherwise would the second time. I don't know what "sort with capital-M" means as there is no capital-M shown in the top manual (man top). But here is the result of top: top - 09:14:35 up 3 days, 1:05, 4 users, load average: 2.57, 2.40, 2.75 Tasks: 94 total, 1 running, 93 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie Cpu(s): 1.3% us, 1.3% sy, 0.0% ni, 0.0% id, 97.0% wa, 0.3% hi, 0.0% si Mem: 515484k total, 509340k used, 6144k free, 1632k buffers Swap: 1269084k total, 100652k used, 1168432k free, 324128k cached PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 3923 joe 15 0 152m 86m 5536 S 1.7 17.2 2693:39 kded 81 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0.3 0.0 1:05.87 kblockd/0 3656 joe 16 0 31308 9944 3216 S 0.3 1.9 2:08.92 mdkapplet 22243 joe 16 0 1996 1036 804 R 0.3 0.2 0:00.01 top 1 root 16 0 1560 452 428 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.92 init 2 root 34 19 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.07 ksoftirqd/0 3 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:02.17 events/0 4 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.01 khelper 5 root 11 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kthread 7 root 20 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kacpid 116 root 19 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 aio/0 115 root 15 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 4:54.99 kswapd0 793 root 15 0 0 0 0 D 0.0 0.0 0:15.98 kjournald 937 root 11 -4 1564 456 404 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.13 udevd 1169 root 15 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 khubd 2348 root 16 0 1580 428 408 S 0.0 0.1 0:04.80 ifplugd 2410 root 16 0 1608 548 484 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.10 syslogd 2418 root 15 0 2324 440 436 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.06 klogd 2450 root 16 0 1548 444 440 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.00 acpid 2536 root 16 0 5756 1020 664 S 0.0 0.2 0:00.58 cupsd 2677 root 23 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kgameportd 2835 xfs 16 0 4196 1152 716 S 0.0 0.2 0:00.73 xfs 2850 messageb 16 0 2220 792 696 S 0.0 0.2 0:00.12 dbus-daemon-1 2865 root 16 0 4128 1352 1036 S 0.0 0.3 1:34.79 hald 3018 root 16 0 2796 616 536 S 0.0 0.1 0:13.40 nifd 3029 root 17 0 2612 436 432 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.00 kdm 3031 root 15 0 31116 15m 2260 S 0.0 3.1 88:40.58 X 3073 root 16 0 3420 632 628 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.02 kdm 3115 nobody 16 0 11420 732 616 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.01 mDNSResponder 3134 daemon 16 0 1684 508 472 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.00 atd --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss