On Sat, 2003-08-16 at 01:50, Adam Williamson wrote: > I've just started noticing this since I came in from work, about > 10:30pm. Since then I've updated to kernel 0.5mdk and a few other minor > updates (lm_sensors 2.8.0 and a couple of other small things). Certain > things, between which I can't find much of a link, seem to slow the > system down *massively*; the two I've noticed most so far are running > urpmi --auto-select, and saving a file with Galeon. When doing either of > these, the system becomes incredibly sluggish to respond - if I bring a > window forward, for instance, I can watch it redrawing in separate > stages, with several seconds between each, and the whole system just has > the very sluggish response you'd expect if 100% CPU were being used or > something. top does not report 100% CPU usage, though. Anyone else > seeing this? Any idea what the problem is?
OK, so to reply to myself again, I realised I was once more being silly, and drew the obvious link between the two, and yes, the problem is heavy network usage. Basically, downloading a file from the internet will trigger it; do it any which way (urpmi, galeon, wget) and the system immediately begins to resemble treacle. I hope someone not using nvnet is seeing this, because if they aren't, it might be difficult to sort....of course, it could be related to the missing /lib/2.4.22-0.xxxx/build directory problem which Thomas and I identified earlier, and which I am fudging by making a symlink to /usr/src/linux-2.4.22-0.xxxx ? If this fudge is incorrect, that could explain it. -- adamw
