[TAG] High Load on Computer....

[Ben Okopnik]

On Thu, Mar 25, 2004 at 10:08:39PM +0000, Thomas Adam wrote:
> 
> Yet, the machine is still slow. By slow, I mean, it is very sluggish. It
> takes a while in re-rendering windows if I flip pages (I'm using fvwm), It
> takes a few seconds to re-draw. Xload, shows the system in a constant
> high-load [2]. Even with no applications open, except the running window
> manager, the load shown by [2] is constant.
 
What happens when you run it without any manager, i.e. just start X
itself? If the load is still low at that point, what happens when you
fire up, say, "twm"? There are times when you have to slice very fine to
get to the root cause, and this sounds like one of those.

> I have had top(1) running constantly looking for any relationship between
> load peaks, and processes, and I cannot see any. As an example:
> 
> ```
> [n6tadam at station n6tadam]$ uptime
>  21:54:26 up 1 day,  4:48,  9 users,   load average: 2.83, 2.75, 2.67
> '''
> 
> ```
> [n6tadam at station n6tadam]$ free
>              total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
> Mem:        515092     424804      90288          0      14436     251408
> -/+ buffers/cache:     158960     356132
> Swap:        72256          0      72256
> [n6tadam at station n6tadam]$ 
> '''
 
So, where's the output from "top"? :)


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