Was it going slow at the moment you caught this? If not, can you catch that moment? -- Allen Brown http://brown.armoredpenguin.com/~abrown/ By trying we can easily endure adversity. Another man's, I mean. --- Mark Twain
----- Original Message ----- From: "Joseph Weston Morgan" <[email protected]> To: "Eugene Unix and Gnu/Linux User Group" <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, January 22, 2011 4:20:54 PM Subject: Re: [Eug-lug] Fwd: slow system Something like this? top - 16:19:18 up 26 min, 2 users, load average: 1.26, 1.32, 1.26 Tasks: 138 total, 1 running, 137 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie Cpu(s): 21.9%us, 11.9%sy, 0.0%ni, 65.9%id, 0.3%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st Mem: 507324k total, 495336k used, 11988k free, 7300k buffers Swap: 2104476k total, 59552k used, 2044924k free, 106012k cached PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 893 root 20 0 142m 35m 4540 S 12.2 7.3 2:12.75 Xorg 2314 wes 20 0 92356 10m 8256 S 5.3 2.1 0:03.86 gnome-terminal 1952 wes 20 0 97984 13m 6564 S 2.0 2.8 0:24.78 plugin-containe 1921 wes 20 0 425m 88m 12m S 1.3 17.8 2:25.95 firefox-bin 1711 wes 20 0 78048 9356 6960 S 0.7 1.8 0:04.64 wnck-applet 2337 wes 20 0 2624 968 720 R 0.7 0.2 0:00.72 top 1639 wes 20 0 146m 9124 7048 S 0.3 1.8 0:04.93 metacity 1831 wes 20 0 43188 17m 2152 S 0.3 3.5 0:08.11 ubuntuone-syncd 1851 wes 20 0 426m 74m 13m S 0.3 15.0 2:47.82 thunderbird-bin 1861 wes 20 0 35608 14m 4188 S 0.3 2.9 0:05.26 ubuntu-sso-logi 1 root 20 0 2892 952 640 S 0.0 0.2 0:00.67 init 2 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kthreadd 3 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.34 ksoftirqd/0 4 root RT 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 migration/0 5 root RT 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 watchdog/0 6 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.06 events/0 7 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 cpuset 8 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 khelper 9 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 netns 10 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 async/mgr 11 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 pm 12 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 sync_supers 13 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 bdi-default 14 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kintegrityd/0 15 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:01.16 kblockd/0 16 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kacpid 17 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kacpi_notify 18 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kacpi_hotplug 19 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 ata_aux 20 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.22 ata_sff/0 21 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 khubd 22 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kseriod 23 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kmmcd 25 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 khungtaskd 26 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:01.52 kswapd0 27 root 25 5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 ksmd 28 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 aio/0 On 01/21/2011 11:47 PM, Horst wrote: > I have 30 GB unused disk space and 500MB of ram. Firefox can be a real memory hog. To answer previous questions about *what* is taking up your resources, on the cmd line enter top and paste the header lines (showing mem, swap, etc.) and the following 10 or so lines into your email. Copy right after a screen refresh, and quit 'top' with 'q' - Horst From: Joseph Weston Morgan <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Fri, January 21, 2011 12:53:58 PM Subject: [Eug-lug] Fwd: slow system -------- Original Message -------- Subject: slow system Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2011 18:03:09 -0800 From: Joseph Weston Morgan <[email protected]> To: [email protected] My system is slowing to a crawl. I have gone through the forums and have found that updating the kernel can solve the problem. If I don't do this right, could it screw up my entire system? I am running Ubuntu 10.10. I have 30 GB unused disk space and 500MB of ram. Wes Morgan Is your Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick slow and sluggish? Make it run better. By Vik ⋅ October 27, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment Filed Under 10.10 , amd64 , kernel , lag , linux , maverick , meerkat , power , slow , sluggish , ubuntu , wget , x86 I recently installed the latest (10.10) version of Ubuntu. My oh my. Its really unpolished under the hood to say the least. Loved the new font, love the background. But, as soon as I started using it on full power (Firefox with 30+ tabs, Compiz), it just borked. I experienced 15 second lags and it was a wholly unhappy experience. Searching through the forums proved that I wasn’t the only one who was suffering. Aware of the fact that a re-install of 10.04 would cost me hours, I was sure there was a solution out there. Thats when I stumbled across this post in Ubuntu Forums. EDIT: Skip to updated instructions at the bottom . Upgrade your kernel to 2.6.36-rc7 kernel, and you’re going to see a considerable improvement. Instructions as follows: 1 2 3 < del datetime = "2010-10-26T18:54:00+00:00" > sudo su - cd / wget http://kernel.ubuntu.com/%7Ekernel-ppa/mainline/v2.6.36-rc7 - maverick / linux-headers-2.6.36-020636rc7_2.6.36-020636rc7.201010070908_all.deb </ del > For x64 1 2 < del datetime = "2010-10-26T18:54:00+00:00" > wget http://kernel.ubuntu.com/%7Ekernel - ppa / mainline / v2.6.36-rc7-maverick / linux-headers-2.6.36-020636rc7-generic_ 2.6.36-020636rc7.201010070908_amd64.deb wget http://kernel.ubuntu.com/%7Ekernel-ppa/mainline/v2.6.36-rc7-maverick/linux - image-2.6.36-020636rc7-generic_2.6.36-020636rc7.201010070908_amd64.deb </ del > For x86 1 2 3 < del datetime = "2010-10-26T18:54:00+00:00" > wget http://kernel.ubuntu.com/ ~ kernel-ppa / mainline / v2.6.36-rc7-maverick / linux-headers-2.6.36-020636rc7- generic_2.6.36-020636rc7.201010070908_i386.deb wget http: // kernel.ubuntu.com / ~kernel-ppa / mainline / v2.6.36-rc7- maverick / linux-image-2.6.36-020636rc7-generic_2.6.36-020636rc7.201010070908_i386.deb dpkg -i linux-headers-2.6.36-020636rc7_2.6.36-020636rc7.201010070908_all.deb </ del > And, to end, depending on which version you’ve downloaded, change the following code to suit your needs: 1 2 < del datetime = "2010-10-26T18:54:00+00:00" > dpkg -i linux-headers-2.6.36-020636rc7 -generic_2.6.36-020636rc7.201010070908_amd64.deb dpkg -i linux-image-2.6.36-020636rc7-generic_2.6.36-020636rc7. 201010070908_i386.deb </ del > _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
