Dennis Kaplan wrote:
With that much RAM, swap's probably not even entering into the discussion at this point.On Friday 16 January 2004 07:09 am, Kent West wrote:On Fri, 2004-01-16 at 01:32, Dennis Kaplan wrote:Hi all, Intel 1000 MHz, 1000Mb Ram, 40 + 20GB HD The problem is the CPU load when idle it runs between 5-30 % As soon as I start an application it goes up to 100% and stays there till the application is done loading. Loading an application like Kmail takes about 2 to 3 minutes.Perhaps this was covered in an earlier post in this thread; how much RAM do you have?I have 1G Ram and almost 2G Swap
Have you tried loading apps from a different windowing environment other than KDE to see how that works?
Does the same thing happen when you start an app in the console, say, emacs?And if I understand you correctly, you can pop in a Knoppix CD and it works fine; you can do an HD install from that very same Knoppix CD and the machine slows down? When you run the Knoppix CD, is it using the swap space you already have installed on /dev/hdb6? If not, you might configure Knoppix to use that swap space, and see if it slows down.
You might temporarily disconnect /dev/hdb (to eliminated any HD-connected-to-HD "glitches") and do with a swap (or create a new one on /dev/hda) on your hard drive-installed setup and see if the problem stays or goes away.
Oh, clue . . . I'm unfamiliar with the xfs file system; is it like ext3 in that an ext3 file system can be both ext2 and ext3, just depending on how you mount it? In other words, you say you've tried with and without the xfs filesystem; does that mean you've created xfs file systems but then mounted them as non-xfs? If so, you might try totally removing any xfs-related file systems and use only ext2/3 as a test. Or does it mean that when it came time to trying a different install, you reformatted all your partitions as ext2/3 without any xfs being involved, in which case, ignore this paragraph (except to make it more clear to us what you're doing).
You might even try moving your hard drives around on the IDE bus, say move /dev/hdc to /dev/hda, and move /dev/hda and /dev/hdb to /dev/hdc and /dev/hdd respectively (of course, you'll need to remember to make changes in /etc/fstab first, or be prepared to boot using some sort of rescue method).
You might try booting off the Knoppix or Morphix CD, but only as a rescue CD, and specify the root to be your hard drive's root, and see what that does.
Another idea, while in console on a regular hd boot, run top on one screen, and then start killing processes one-by-one and watch to see what happens.
Also, check your cpu processing when you boot into single-user mode.You definitely have a mystery here. I hope some clue leads you to a solution; I know it's frustrating.
-- Kent