Running 'top' without capital M option. 12:27pm up 82 days, 22:34, 4 users, load average: 0.90, 0.61, 0.49 1322 processes: 1321 sleeping, 1 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped CPU0 states: 0.7% user, 41.2% system, 0.0% nice, 57.7% idle CPU1 states: 0.5% user, 87.1% system, 0.0% nice, 12.1% idle Mem: 4009448K av, 3677312K used, 332136K free, 0K shrd, 264120K buff Swap: 2040216K av, 16K used, 2040200K free 1719540K cached PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND 12140 root 25 0 2332 2332 840 R 87.6 0.0 0:16 top 4827 ccfw 15 0 375M 374M 6632 S 0.1 9.5 16:39 java 4464 ccfw 16 0 375M 374M 6632 S 0.1 9.5 18:42 java 23216 root -31 0 2868 2868 2208 S 0.1 0.0 0:00 hats_nim 1 root 15 0 244 244 204 S 0.0 0.0 0:05 init 2 root 0K 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 migration_CPU0 3 root 0K 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 migration_CPU1 4 root 15 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:03 keventd 5 root 34 19 0 0 0 SWN 0.0 0.0 0:05 ksoftirqd_CPU0 6 root 34 19 0 0 0 SWN 0.0 0.0 0:15 ksoftirqd_CPU1 7 root 15 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 kswapd 8 root 25 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 bdflush 9 root 15 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 kupdated 10 root 25 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 kinoded 13 root 25 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 mdrecoveryd 14 root 15 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:29 kjournald 71 root 15 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:14 kjournald 72 root 15 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 1:27 kjournald 73 root 15 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:06 kjournald 74 root 15 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:04 kjournald 75 root 15 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 kjournald 76 root 15 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:10 kjournald 278 root 15 0 1484 1480 1264 S 0.0 0.0 0:00 srcmstr With capital M used with top running from shell results in: 12:28pm up 82 days, 22:35, 4 users, load average: 0.75, 0.63, 0.50 1320 processes: 1319 sleeping, 1 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped CPU0 states: 1.1% user, 0.1% system, 0.0% nice, 98.9% idle CPU1 states: 0.2% user, 56.9% system, 0.0% nice, 43.0% idle Mem: 4009448K av, 3677100K used, 332348K free, 0K shrd, 264120K buff Swap: 2040216K av, 16K used, 2040200K free 1719648K cached PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND 4053 ccfw 23 0 375M 374M 6632 S 0.0 9.5 0:00 java 4055 ccfw 15 0 375M 374M 6632 S 0.0 9.5 9:16 java 4056 ccfw 15 0 375M 374M 6632 S 0.0 9.5 0:00 java 4057 ccfw 20 0 375M 374M 6632 S 0.0 9.5 0:19 java 4058 ccfw 15 0 375M 374M 6632 S 0.0 9.5 3:44 java 4059 ccfw 18 0 375M 374M 6632 S 0.0 9.5 36:34 java 4060 ccfw 25 0 375M 374M 6632 S 0.0 9.5 0:00 java 4061 ccfw 25 0 375M 374M 6632 S 0.0 9.5 0:00 java 4069 ccfw 15 0 375M 374M 6632 S 0.0 9.5 0:00 java 4070 ccfw 15 0 375M 374M 6632 S 0.0 9.5 0:00 java 4071 ccfw 15 0 375M 374M 6632 S 0.0 9.5 2:07 java 4091 ccfw 15 0 375M 374M 6632 S 0.0 9.5 0:01 java 4094 ccfw 15 0 375M 374M 6632 S 0.0 9.5 2:27 java 4096 ccfw 15 0 375M 374M 6632 S 0.0 9.5 0:00 java 4112 ccfw 15 0 375M 374M 6632 S 0.0 9.5 0:00 java 4113 ccfw 15 0 375M 374M 6632 S 0.0 9.5 0:19 java 4114 ccfw 15 0 375M 374M 6632 S 0.0 9.5 0:19 java 4128 ccfw 15 0 375M 374M 6632 S 0.0 9.5 0:00 java 4129 ccfw 20 0 375M 374M 6632 S 0.0 9.5 0:00 java 4177 ccfw 15 0 375M 374M 6632 S 0.0 9.5 0:00 java 4299 ccfw 15 0 375M 374M 6632 S 0.0 9.5 0:01 java 4652 ccfw 15 0 375M 374M 6632 S 0.0 9.5 0:00 java 4665 ccfw 15 0 375M 374M 6632 S 0.0 9.5 0:00 java 4675 ccfw 15 0 375M 374M 6632 S 0.0 9.5 0:18 java 4682 ccfw 15 0 375M 374M 6632 S 0.0 9.5 0:00 java 4742 ccfw 15 0 375M 374M 6632 S 0.0 9.5 0:00 java 4743 ccfw 15 0 375M 374M 6632 S 0.0 9.5 0:08 java 4750 ccfw 15 0 375M 374M 6632 S 0.0 9.5 0:00 java 4751 ccfw 15 0 375M 374M 6632 S 0.0 9.5 0:13 java 4752 ccfw 15 0 375M 374M 6632 S 0.0 9.5 1:08 java 4758 ccfw 20 0 375M 374M 6632 S 0.0 9.5 0:00 java 4770 ccfw 15 0 375M 374M 6632 S 0.0 9.5 0:00 java 4774 ccfw 15 0 375M 374M 6632 S 0.0 9.5 0:00 Java processes on this particualr machine are the one's taking the most memory resources. With top running, just used "shift-m" to activate this view. Hope this helps. Daniel Parraz Josef Lowder wrote: 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 --------------------------------- Yahoo! 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