On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 6:13 PM, Joseph Weston Morgan <[email protected]> wrote: > > is it a resource limit? > > It does not seem to be pushing the resource limit. > > Is your CPU running flat-out? Or are you out of memory? Are you running so > many processes that you are constantly swapping?
Those Screenshots show a very high load average which does imply a resource limit somewhere, but they do not tell us where that limit is. There are more diagnostics you could use if you still want to diagnose it, such as iostat. There might also be clues in dmesg but, I think your idea to upgrade the kernel is worth a try. One thing you should test first is to watch the load average and then stop each of your user processes starting with Firefox, then Openoffice, then Thunderbird, and see if stopping any of those reduces your load average. Bill _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
