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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