On Sat, 2010-04-03 at 23:03 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > 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
<snip> I use TkEmc but your description of the problem sounds identical if I understood it correctly. I get a serious slowdown if I leave backplot up for hours. Screen response gets really slow, even the mouse may take seconds to respond. Shutting down backplot may take 10 to 30 minutes. As soon as backplot is down my response come back to normal. I've always thought this was due to a memory leak that simply hogs more memory over time. Other people contend that is related to job priorities. It doesn't happen unless I run backplot and I rarely run anything but emc on the machine. Any and all ideas, especially if accompanied with evidence would be appreciated. Just my tupence. Dave ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
