On Mon, 27 Nov 2006 17:22:19 -0700, Darrin Chandler wrote: > On Mon, Nov 27, 2006 at 05:04:27PM -0700, Michael Havens wrote: >> i'm sorry buddy.... I can't tell you much more than I got the biggest >> ram >> chips there is and that all of the ports to accept the ram chips are >> filled. > > Then you are left with running leaner apps, and turning off daemons you > don't need. Sounds like you're well on your way with leaner window > manager, email, etc. > > You might also spend some quality time with "top" and "vmstat" (or > whatever incarnation it is now). There might be some particular thing > slowing you down, and maybe you can do something about it. > I don't know.... top looks pretty lean and I don't know what I'm looking at in the in vmstat (virtualmemory statistics?). I suppose I could stop spamd but that is only 7.4%memory. To my untrained eye things are as lean as can be. What say you? mike1@3[~]$ top;vmstat top - 17:57:17 up 19:10, 2 users, load average: 2.15, 2.05, 1.45 Tasks: 89 total, 4 running, 85 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie Cpu(s): 66.8% us, 16.8% sy, 2.5% ni, 3.5% id, 0.0% wa, 9.4% hi, 1.0% si Mem: 385264k total, 374040k used, 11224k free, 49748k buffers Swap: 1025000k total, 18564k used, 1006436k free, 116624k cached PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 8502 bmike1 15 0 140m 74m 14m R 41.0 19.7 13:27.54 opera 3616 root 5 -10 64760 10m 3644 S 25.2 2.9 119:41.13 Xorg 6886 bmike1 15 0 30040 15m 12m R 14.8 4.0 10:13.46 x-terminal-emul 8720 bmike1 15 0 2196 1036 828 R 2.8 0.3 0:03.62 top 8733 bmike1 34 19 8132 4164 2776 R 2.5 1.1 0:01.37 operapluginwrap 885 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0.3 0.0 1:08.80 usb-storage 3332 root 15 0 31388 27m 1636 S 0.3 7.4 1:23.42 spamd 8498 bmike1 15 0 29332 14m 11m S 0.3 3.7 0:16.34 x-terminal-emul 1 root 16 0 1564 500 436 S 0.0 0.1 0:01.49 init 2 root 34 19 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:24.34 ksoftirqd/0 3 root RT 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 watchdog/0 4 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:03.88 events/0 5 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.16 khelper 6 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.01 kthread 8 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.03 kblockd/0 26 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 khubd 93 root 15 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:02.84 pdflush 94 root 15 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:05.88 pdflush 96 root 18 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 aio/0 95 root 16 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:07.77 kswapd0 688 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kseriod 814 root 11 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 ata/0 815 root 11 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 ata_hotplug/0 833 root 16 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 khpsbpkt 850 root 15 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:11.29 kjournald 855 root 11 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 scsi_eh_0 856 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:05.29 usb-storage 884 root 11 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 scsi_eh_1 1115 root 12 -4 2432 792 248 S 0.0 0.2 0:18.07 udevd 1941 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 shpchpd_event 1971 root 11 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 scsi_eh_2 2207 dhcp 13 -2 2328 712 428 S 0.0 0.2 0:08.06 dhclient3 procs -----------memory---------- ---swap-- -----io---- --system-- ----cpu---- r b swpd free buff cache si so bi bo in cs us sy id wa 3 0 18564 11200 49756 116632 0 0 5 16 296 441 43 12 45 0 bmike1@3[~]$ -- :~)MIKE(~: --------------------------------------------------- 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