Hmm,
It occurs to me that some people may not be aware of the various tools
available to watch and learn about what is happening to your system.
I heartily recommend running some of the following tools all the
time. They teach you a lot about your system and can be very useful in
understanding the bottlenecks.
Even if you haven't the foggiest what the various stats mean. Leave
the things running and watch how they react when you do various
things. Cosmically speaking it will eventually percolate into your
brain what the man pages are talking about.
top
See which prog is hogging what and in what state.
vmstat 5
Prints a single line summary of what is going on in the VM every 5 seconds.
procmeter
Start this one with cpu,load,swap,disk,fpkt-rx,fpkt-tx,fpkt-coll if
you on ethernet or just cpu,load,swap,disk,lpkt if on a modem. Make
it sticky if your window manager allows.
Poke about the /proc file system. "less" everything in sight.
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