On Monday 24 May 2004 9:28 am, Don Gould wrote: > How do I find out what things are taking up memory and processor time? The commands 'ps' and 'top' display this info.
> I'm sure that RH9 on a PIII-450 shouldn't be this bad. > > It takes up to 10 seconds just to open a new mail message and minutes to > open or close things like mail reader and web browser. > > Coming back from screen saver is a slow process as well. > > I suspect I've just got to much crap from the kernel up. More likely you have a run-a-way process. Mozilla has a bad habit of occasionally spawning off child processes which start gobbling processor cycles when the parent dies. > Are there any good wizard tools or do I need to use a set of complex CLI > commands? You can kill processes from within 'top'. Press the 'k' key. Alternatively use the 'kill' or 'killall' commands. There is a GUI front-end called "The KDE System Guard". On a Genuine KDE installation you can activeate it with the CTRL + ESC keys. I do not know if it is available on the mongrelized RedHat installs. man top man ps man kill man killall man apropos are your friends. -- Sincerely etc. Christopher Sawtell NB. This PC runs Linux. If you find a virus apparently from me, it has forged the e-mail headers on someone else's machine. Please do not notify me when this occurs. Thanks.
