On 07/28/2011 04:51 PM, [email protected] wrote: > On my EEEPC 702, I find say a few minute long > aptitiude full-upgrade > is enough to make the whole computer so slow as to even cause some > xwindows to not 'hear' what I type into them. I can still switch to them > with ALT TAB, but not it's often hard to get a word in edgewise until > the apt stuff stops. Even apt-get update with a lot of pdiffs is the > same. Yes I tried nice(1). > So it is something about the CPU on EEEPC 702 + Debian sid that makes it > do the intense jobs even intenser than my other computers. > Actually top(1) doesn't say it is the CPU that is the necessarily busy > part... Yes, I'm talking about after downloading, during the package > installing.
Being IO'd to death? Maybe something degraded to 'polling' mode? Check syslog. Ben _______________________________________________ Debian-eeepc-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/debian-eeepc-devel
