On Saturday 03 April 2010, Dave Caroline wrote: >384meg is a bit on the low side, open a terminal and type >top >look at %wa should be 0 if its a high percentage its probably using >swap memory...and that is a speed killer > >Dave Caroline
According to top, no swap. But when I last looked, before rebooting, axis was using 44% of that 384 megs. I normally have 2 double tabbed shells open, one of which is running emc-2.3.4, and a copy of konversation in another screen so I can yak at you folks on IRC. And even though the machine was all but frozen, there were no cpu hogs showing except x itself, at anywhere from 6% to 9% of the cpu. I assume that RTAI, which does show 2 related processes to top, doesn't share its cpu usage with top. Also, I stopped konversation via the menu, it disappeared from the top report, but that made no diff in the nearly frozen machine. Stopping konversation was about a ten minute job, 4 of them just to switch screens. Then the mouse would disappear for 30 seconds so you have to just sort of sneak up on the konversation menu once you got it displayed, carefully choose quit. Click & go get a glass of ice water, there was still some vestiges of it on the screen when I got back from the house. Suspecting I had given to much time to the base thread, I changed that timing from 28,000 ns to 50,000 ns, but if anything, that made the lag between hitting the esc key and the machine stopping even longer. At one point it took nearly a minute to quit, but axis stopped immediately, so I'm a bit dumbfounded, standing there staring at the axis screen frozen in time, and the machine cuts 3 more 360 degree spirals before it stops. Spooky. Thanks Dave. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) You will have a long and unpleasant discussion with your supervisor. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
