sleeping processes and swap

[Michael Havens]

On Mon, 27 Nov 2006 17:22:19 -0700, Darrin Chandler  
<dwchandler at stilyagin.com> 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 at 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 at 3[~]$


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