Re: Etch becoming slower than Sarge?
Douglas Tutty wrote:
I run amd64 Etch on an AMD Athlon 3800+, one GB stick DDR2-800 ECC
memory (I know, to really get the dual data rate I need two sticks,
that's next year's upgrade). Since I use SATA drives I couldn't use
Sarge so don't know if Etch is slower on this box. My other box runs
Sarge but its a 486. I would hazzard a guess that my amd64 is faster
than my 486 :-)
My top shows Mem: 1027728k total and under normal load including
watching a DVD is 97% idle, under 1% waiting.
Do you run i386 or amd64 version of Debian?
I __finally__ figured out
how to get it to use swap and spend some time waiting:
have aptitude upgrading (actual installation not downloading)
run long S.M.A.R.T. self-tests on sda and sdb
(dual SATA drives in raid1)
run a full backup (making tar.bz2 files)
run galeon
watch a dvd on VLC, deinterlace-blend, expand to full-screen
(1600 x 1200)
Then I use all of 84k swap, wait 25%, idle 94%. Swap is encrypted.
Don't bother yourself. Just use Java. ;)
top - 23:18:30 up 13:42, 5 users, load average: 0.28, 0.84, 1.09
Tasks: 97 total, 3 running, 94 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu(s): 0.8%us, 0.4%sy, 0.0%ni, 98.8%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si,
0.0%st
Mem: 704704k total, 697872k used, 6832k free, 6244k buffers
Swap: 2104472k total, 84860k used, 2019612k free, 143872k cached
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
12761 bora 15 0 999m 277m 51m S 0.0 40.3 0:58.36 java
12572 tomcat5 25 0 429m 153m 45m S 0.0 22.2 0:20.35 java
10741 bora 15 0 265m 67m 18m S 0.0 9.8 0:42.74 icedove-bin
12807 bora 15 0 195m 43m 19m S 0.0 6.3 0:05.39 firefox-bin
7973 bora 15 0 125m 24m 12m S 0.0 3.6 0:11.37 gnome-panel
11166 bora 16 0 124m 23m 12m R 0.0 3.4 0:09.19 gnome-terminal
7884 root 15 0 192m 20m 6944 R 0.4 3.0 11:09.05 Xorg
7987 bora 15 0 107m 14m 10m S 0.0 2.2 0:12.44 wnck-applet
7975 bora 15 0 176m 14m 10m S 0.0 2.1 0:02.38 nautilus
8010 bora 15 0 132m 12m 9876 S 0.0 1.8 0:01.08 clock-applet
8007 bora 15 0 116m 12m 9928 S 0.0 1.8 0:01.04 mixer_applet2
8005 bora 15 0 115m 11m 8676 S 0.0 1.7 0:01.75 gnome-keyboard-
7961 bora 15 0 62968 10m 8548 S 0.4 1.5 0:13.97 metacity
7959 bora 15 0 113m 6976 5552 S 0.0 1.0 0:03.27 gnome-settings-
7758 mysql 16 0 143m 5060 2236 S 0.0 0.7 0:00.67 mysqld
9471 bora 15 0 110m 4976 4748 S 0.0 0.7 0:00.11 evolution-data-
7900 bora 15 0 92772 4964 4444 S 0.0 0.7 0:00.54 gnome-session
3185 bora 15 0 24036 3872 1672 S 0.0 0.5 0:01.04 gconfd-2
12451 bora 15 0 13240 3468 1484 S 0.0 0.5 0:00.09 bash
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