Re: Computer not running at highest possible speed
Wim De Smet wrote:
Hi,
What is the nice value of X? (check with top) It might cause problems
with 2.6 if it's still at -10, you can dpkg-reconfigure it and change
it to 0 if it is. You might want to check out other processes and
their memory usage too. Lately I had a similar problem and it was
essentially a runaway vidwhacker process gorging up my ram.
greets,
Wim
The nice value was indeed -10, i changed it to 0 but there are still
quite some other processes with a -10 nice value. I'm not sure whether
they should be or not, here is a screenshot of top:
top - 11:54:27 up 1 day, 20:54, 5 users, load average: 0.61, 1.01, 1.23
Tasks: 67 total, 2 running, 64 sleeping, 0 stopped, 1 zombie
Cpu(s): 27.5% us, 1.0% sy, 0.0% ni, 70.9% id, 0.0% wa, 0.3% hi, 0.3% si
Mem: 515584k total, 297584k used, 218000k free, 4732k buffers
Swap: 497972k total, 4504k used, 493468k free, 136008k cached
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
5862 root 16 0 99232 28m 81m R 21.0 5.7 2:26.89 XFree86
6183 jule 15 0 104m 35m 32m S 6.3 7.0 0:06.70
mozilla-thunder
6222 jule 15 0 27760 10m 16m S 0.3 2.2 0:00.74 gnome-terminal
1 root 16 0 1528 468 1376 S 0.0 0.1 0:01.31 init
2 root 34 19 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.01 ksoftirqd/0
3 root 5 -10 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.43 events/0
4 root 5 -10 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 khelper
5 root 13 -10 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kacpid
22 root 5 -10 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.57 kblockd/0
32 root 15 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.59 pdflush
35 root 7 -10 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 aio/0
34 root 15 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:03.51 kswapd0
124 root 25 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kseriod
242 root 15 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:03.57 kjournald
466 root 18 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 khubd
490 root 15 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:01.20 kjournald
491 root 15 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.07 kjournald
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Jule Slootbeek
jslootbeek@clarku.edu
http://www.thesloot.com
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