Top says I have ~9 mb of ram free and 167mb of swap.
I have 27 services running (most of which I have no idea what they are),
is this normal?
Are there any got'yas that I should know about and be looking for?
How do I get a basic list of the services that are running?
ntsysv gave me quite a nice graphic tool which is very kewl (as I always
was one for GUI) but that's not helpful if you just want to store a list
of what you had when you started.
Cheers Don
Below is my top output, does this look as expected?
11:30:04 up 1 day, 17:55, 4 users, load average: 0.13, 0.36, 0.47
84 processes: 80 sleeping, 4 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
CPU states: 20.3% user 1.3% system 0.0% nice 0.0% iowait 78.2% idle
Mem: 125992k av, 117680k used, 8312k free, 0k shrd, 4480k buff
85656k actv, 148k in_d, 1200k in_c
Swap: 257000k av, 89808k used, 167192k free 56568k cached
PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME CPU COMMAND
10236 root 15 0 24396 9.9M 1188 S 1.7 8.0 665:37 0 X
12325 don 15 0 7788 7216 4928 R 0.9 5.7 0:03 0 kdeinit
12476 root 16 0 1104 1104 848 R 0.3 0.8 0:00 0 top
10362 don 15 0 4628 3240 2140 S 0.1 2.5 0:08 0 kdeinit
10366 don 15 0 5712 4164 2532 S 0.1 3.3 0:45 0 kdeinit
10419 don 15 0 5012 3564 2180 S 0.1 2.8 0:04 0 evolution-addre
1 root 15 0 464 432 416 S 0.0 0.3 0:03 0 init
2 root 15 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 0 keventd
3 root 15 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 0 kapmd
4 root 34 19 0 0 0 SWN 0.0 0.0 0:00 0 ksoftirqd_CPU0
9 root 15 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 0 bdflush
5 root 15 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 0 kswapd
6 root 15 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 0 kscand/DMA
7 root 15 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 0 kscand/Normal
8 root 15 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 0 kscand/HighMem
10 root 15 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 0 kupdated
11 root 22 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 0 mdrecoveryd
15 root 15 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:01 0 kjournald
73 root 25 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 0 khubd
1179 root 15 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 0 kjournald
1224 root 25 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 0 knodemgrd
1485 root 15 0 580 552 504 S 0.0 0.4 0:00 0 syslogd
1489 root 15 0 404 360 356 S 0.0 0.2 0:00 0 klogd
1507 rpc 15 0 496 420 420 S 0.0 0.3 0:00 0 portmap
1526 rpcuser 25 0 628 552 552 S 0.0 0.4 0:00 0 rpc.statd
1582 root 25 0 600 460 456 S 0.0 0.3 0:00 0 cardmgr
1606 root 24 0 468 424 420 S 0.0 0.3 0:00 0 apmd
1643 root 24 0 724 484 480 S 0.0 0.3 0:00 0 sshd
1657 root 22 0 680 564 560 S 0.0 0.4 0:00 0 xinetd
1674 ntp 15 0 2384 2384 2152 S 0.0 1.8 0:00 0 ntpd
[EMAIL PROTECTED] don]#
On Mon, 2004-05-24 at 09:52, Nick Rout wrote:
> top provides an interactive view in a terminal, and there are many
> variants for X, which often go under varying names like 'system monitor'
> in the menuing system
>
> RAM is likely to be a big part of your problem - how much ram and swap
> do you have (run the program "free" in a terminal to find out).
> My son's pII 433 (128M RAM) goes fine on kde, not snappy like a modern
> machine, but very usable.
>
> Also check what services you are running. In a terminal (as root) run
> ntsysv and see what services are turned on by default. turn off those
> not required. NB, this does not turn off the service, it sets whether it
> is turned on in your present runlevel. to turn a service off now run:
>
> service sendmail stop
>
> where sendmail is the service you wish to terminate.
>
> Recompiling your kernel is a moderately complex affair, first you need
> the kernel sources that redhat supply. (Actually you can use any kernel
> sources, but IMHO it is best to start with what redhat supply. They
> heavily patch their kernel and if you start using another set of sources
> you are going to find that things that worked with the redhat kernel
> suddenly don't work any more!)
>
> However I would work on reducing your services and buying another stick
> of RAM first.
>
> You might also want to use a less hungry window manager like windowmaker,
> fluxbox, xfce. (This can be the start of a religious war if I am not
> careful).
>
> Also you are right , evolution is a fine email client, but very resource
> hungry. try sylpheed if you want a lightweight one.
>
> Frankly your machine may be a little underpowered to experience the full
> glory of a modern OS, I suspect XP would be sluggish too (now I 'll get
> flamed for mentioning XP in the context of a modern OS). Don't tell me
> W98 runs well on it, its too old. A 1998 linux distro would probably run
> fine too, except, like 98, it would be a security nightmare!
>
>
> On Mon, 24 May 2004 09:28:54 +1200
> Don Gould <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > How do I find out what things are taking up memory and processor time?
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > Are there any good wizard tools or do I need to use a set of complex CLI
> > commands?
> >
> > Cheers Don
> >
> > Ps: Still loving this mail reader.
