CJ Kelley wrote:
*/"Abraham E. Mandac, Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>/* wrote:
I'm running Mandriva 2006. I booted up this morning and for some reason,
performance has just been extremely slower; my computer's literally
crawling as I type this message.
I've been running Bluefish, Opera, Firefox, Gedit, a few terminals,
OpenOffice, Evolution, Apache, MySQL server, an FTP client plus a few
more light programs all simultaneously on GNOME for a few weeks now, and
this sort of slow-down has never happened before. Could it be some
system maintainance cron job I don't know of? (I did a pstree but I'm
not "expert" enough to make anything of it yet.)
I added the system resources monitor to the GNOME taskbar to gauge
resource usage. Processor usage jumps to 100% every 10 minutes or so and
stays there for a couple of minutes, and RAM and swap usage are both
pushing 100%.
Anybody in the know of what could be going on?
Thanks in advance,
Abe Mandac
----CJ's Reply----
ok heres the culprit: You are running way too much software. Also
resource moniters will slow down the performance of your computer.
Consider closing out most to all of the software when you dont
really need it or consider upgrading your RAM if you really need all
this software going at once.
we would need to know more about your system, how much ram, cpu speed
and swap file size, also is there a localhost entry in the /etc/hosts file?
also I would try killing off some of the 'external services" such as
Apache, in order to be more sure the slowdown was not someone hitting
your website hard and downloading gigibytes of info on multiple
connections to the web or ftp server. BTW, I STRONGLY recommend that you
spend a few weeks learning about configuring both Apache and FTP to
insure your box is secure, this well could be someone has 'zombied' your
web and mail servers (got PHP enabled on the wed server?) and is
allowing/using your box to send spam...
and it could well be an anacron job doing monthly maintenance, but that
should clear up with an hour or 2 max,
what does 'top' in a console (or htop) say is the swap file usage, and
what is using the CPU and memory the most?
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