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On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 4:47 PM, Kerry Mayes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have Ubuntu Hardy Heron installed on a Dell Inspiron 1100, (2Ghz > Celeron, 512Mb ram). The principle use for this machine is to use > rdesktop to access one or more windows machines but I also have it > running exaile to play music while I work and Synergy to work on other > machines in my room. > > Unfortunately, running these programs seems too much for it since I > upgraded to Hardy Heron from Gutsy Gibbon. I am getting load averages > of 1.0 when I start everything, then rising to over 2 when I've been > running for a while. (Currently 2.22 1.69 1.20). > > So I have two questions: > > 1. Is this reasonable? (Should this be too much for this machine?) > > 2. If not, wow would I diagnose what's wrong? > > Biggest users of the processor are exaile (30%%) pulseaudio (13%), > htop (10%!), X (7%) > > Kerry >
