Probably due to many applications always running, the average load of my laptop, as reported by the 'top', is constantly around 5-6, users' cpu percentage being around 90%, with no special application taking most of that. Machine is hp tc4200 laptop, 1.7 GHz (but i am used to keep it in 'powersave' mode, at 0.8GHz) , 1.5MB ram, 2GB swap.
About running processes: As i log in, several system services are started: postfix, dovecot, dictd, hpoj, wooffle, collectd. I one of my attempts, proxy was disabled in webbrowsers, with no change in performance, so my guess is that wwwoffle should not affect the average load. After log in, a few applets (kbandwidth, clock, calendar, systray), two konsoles monitoring log files with 'tail -f', amarok are started and, from a few more konsole sessions, 'sudo su' to four more users. So, there are five users, each of which starts konqueror, connects to gmail, opens a few pdf files, starts kalarm and kgmailnotifier; sometimes lyx editors and maxima (symbolic computations, spending most of the time as idle) are started. One of those users starts ktorrent; another one starts knode; another one starts firefox (connecting to gmail and opening several google notebooks) Any hints to lower the load? Would kernel recompilation improve performance? (i am using kubuntu 8.04.2, kernel 2.6.24-23-generic) Thank you --P -- laptop-testing-team mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/laptop-testing-team
