folks, sorry if i am posting this here, but i am sort of clueless, and
i'd love some advise from you wise people!
i have this AMD Thunderbird 1.3 GHz machine with 512Mb of SD-RAM, a 1Gb
swap partition on a 20Gb 5400 seagate IDE drive. that's quite powerful,
isn't it?
Linux piper 2.4.9 #1 Tue Sep 11 15:39:28 CEST 2001 i686 unknown
16:45:25 up 13 days, 1:17, 7 users, load average: 3.40, 3.56, 3.70
84 processes: 83 sleeping, 1 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
CPU states: 0.8% user, 22.3% system, 1.0% nice, 75.9% idle
Mem: 505844K total, 502788K used, 3056K free, 11456K buffers
Swap: 996020K total, 31172K used, 964848K free, 438552K cached
however, i am continuously having troubles. for instance, in a typical
situation, i'd have windowmaker running with four terms, xmms playing
some 192kbps MP3s, some ssh sessions into it, and an rsync, bzip/gzip,
or make-kpkg process running. i am not usually interactively using X.
in such a situation, xmms (or mpg123 without X, it doesn't matter)
continuously skips on MP3s and it's *very* annoying. i even went as far
as to renice xmms to -20 *and* rsync/bzip/gzip/make-kpkg to 20, but it
doesn't really help.
this is ridiculous. a 1.3 GHz machine should really be able to handle
two intense processes at the same time, after all, UNIX is a true
time-sharing OS. but i am at a loss why this thing is unable to handle
two processes.
any clues?
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