Re: [gentoo-user] Re: load too high

2008-02-16 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Fri, 2008-02-15 at 17:29 +0100, Alex Schuster wrote: Neil Bothwick writes: On Fri, 15 Feb 2008 10:14:22 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: The cruelty is actually worse: the machines that will benefit most from an OOo compile from source, are those old, low memory, asthmatic boxen,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: load too high

2008-02-15 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 15 Feb 2008 10:14:22 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: The cruelty is actually worse: the machines that will benefit most from an OOo compile from source, are those old, low memory, asthmatic boxen, that take two days to complete the emerge! I am tempted to start cross-compiling.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: load too high

2008-02-15 Thread Alex Schuster
Neil Bothwick writes: On Fri, 15 Feb 2008 10:14:22 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: The cruelty is actually worse: the machines that will benefit most from an OOo compile from source, are those old, low memory, asthmatic boxen, that take two days to complete the emerge! I am tempted to

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: load too high

2008-02-14 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 14 February 2008, Iain Buchanan wrote: On Thu, 2008-02-14 at 01:20 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: Ahem. 'scuse me: I have 5.5G for /var/tmp Wanna guess why? well, this is Gentoo, so compile X where X=any damn large enough package probably still fits :) Openoffice for

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: load too high

2008-02-14 Thread Mick
On Thursday 14 February 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Thursday 14 February 2008, Iain Buchanan wrote: On Thu, 2008-02-14 at 01:20 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: Ahem. 'scuse me: I have 5.5G for /var/tmp Wanna guess why? well, this is Gentoo, so compile X where X=any damn large

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: load too high

2008-02-14 Thread Iain Buchanan
sorry to hijack the thread even further... On Thu, 2008-02-14 at 23:04 +, Mick wrote: On Thursday 14 February 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Thursday 14 February 2008, Iain Buchanan wrote: On Thu, 2008-02-14 at 01:20 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: Ahem. 'scuse me: I have 5.5G

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: load too high

2008-02-13 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 13 February 2008, James wrote: James R. Campbell jamesc at reliant-data.com writes: What processes have the most on cpu time as reported by a 'ps ax' ? not certain what your are asking. Here is the result of ps ax: He probably meant 'ps axu' -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: load too high

2008-02-13 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 12 February 2008, James wrote: Alan McKinnon alan.mckinnon at gmail.com writes: One of the workstations (amd64 2gig ram) has a load that never drops below 1.0, as seen by top. Looking at a ps nothing stands out. I did notice that 'X' is at the top of the list, even when the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: load too high

2008-02-13 Thread Iain Buchanan
how about cron jobs like updatedb? Is there any disk activity? -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au tigah_- i have 4gb for /tmp Knghtbrd What do you do with 4G /tmp? Compile X? tigah_- yes -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: load too high

2008-02-13 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 14 February 2008, Iain Buchanan wrote: how about cron jobs like updatedb? Is there any disk activity? -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au tigah_- i have 4gb for /tmp Knghtbrd What do you do with 4G /tmp? Compile X? tigah_- yes Ahem. 'scuse me: I have 5.5G for

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: load too high

2008-02-13 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Thu, 2008-02-14 at 01:20 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Thursday 14 February 2008, Iain Buchanan wrote: how about cron jobs like updatedb? Is there any disk activity? -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au tigah_- i have 4gb for /tmp Knghtbrd What do you do with 4G

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: load too high

2008-02-12 Thread Henry Gebhardt
Any ideas? No.But do you also see this without X running, without most daemons running, in single user mode...?