Re: Berried Question
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.
>
Well, my first guess would be that your disk acess is way too slow.
but I see nothing that's obviously wrong... hmm.
> /dev/hda:
> multcount = 16 (on)
> IO_support = 1 (32-bit)
> unmaskirq = 1 (on)
> using_dma = 1 (on)
> keepsettings = 0 (off)
> readonly = 0 (off)
> readahead = 8 (on)
> geometry = 2498/255/63, sectors = 40132503, start = 0
> Timing buffer-cache reads: 172 MB in 2.00 seconds = 86.00 MB/sec
> Timing buffered disk reads: 72 MB in 3.05 seconds = 23.61 MB/sec
Just for comparison, here's what I get (Athlon 650 and never bothered
about speed):
/dev/hdc:
[...identical...]
geometry = 155061/16/63, sectors = 156301488, start = 0
busstate = 1 (on)
Timing buffer-cache reads: 128 MB in 0.90 seconds =142.22 MB/sec
Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 2.54 seconds = 25.20 MB/sec
Your system might be slower as it could be, but this minimal difference
can't account for your problems.
Looking at your 'top' ouput also tells me little. top itself using 26%
cpu is conspicious, even a 486 should be content at less than 10%. This
should also rule out disk I/O as the drain, as AFAIK there is no disk
I/O with top (at least not in normal usage) and it's still affected.
Comparing mem usage to mem%, your system knows it has one gig available.
Would have been another guess...
You're running X as root, which /always/ is a bad thing to do. Yes, this
has nothing to do with the task at hand. Still, you should change this
behaviour.
Did you go over the output of dmesg? Perhaps it is something silly, like
the kernel not liking your fpu and using emulation instead?
cu,
Schnobs
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