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Re: Debian (sid) painfully slow.



On Friday 07 Jan 2011 18:39:52 Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
> > I will continue to observe the system, with swapping in mind as a
> > possible  factor and see if there is a correlation.
> 
> But if it was swapping you would see the HDD light being lit when you 
> were not doing any obvious disk activity. If you have not seen that then 
> it is not swapping.

The system box is under a desk and the HDD light is not easily visible.

> I have CPU load monitors in both X and VT. Does your CPU load go up when 
> you get these difficulties?

I have BOINC mopping up my spare cycles, so it's rarely below 100%. Stopping 
BOINC for a while might be a worthwhile diagnostic at some point.

Neil Youngman


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