Also use the top command to check the amount of memory being used. If
you see a lot of page-ins and page-outs, some app is making the machine
put stuff in and out to disk which will have a major impact on system
performance.
Jerry
On Friday, September 27, 2002, at 01:54 PM, Bill Rising wrote:
> On 9/27/02 13:32, George H. Yankey wrote
>
>> All of a sudden my computer ( OS 10.2) is operating at a snail's pace.
>> What could be going wrong?
>>
>
> Try opening the Terminal from the Utilties folder of the Applications
> folder, and type
>
> top -u
>
> Look and see what is sucking down all the CPU cycles.
>
> I've had such things happen twice:
>
> Once under 10.1.x when the machine was choking on a bad font.
> Once under 10.2 for apparently no reason, where the machine hanged for
> all of 10 seconds every 5 minutes. I finally shut the machine off at the
> power switch and restarted (not advised).
>
> Bill
>
> The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will be October 22
> For more information, see <http://www.aye.net/~lcs>. A calendar of
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>
>
The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will be October 22
For more information, see <http://www.aye.net/~lcs>. A calendar of
activities is at <http://www.calsnet.net/macusers>.
