In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Rajko M.
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
On Saturday 15 December 2007 05:04:20 pm Roger Hayter wrote:
Can anyone advise me where to look in order to trace this problem
further? I can find a lot of information on how to trace the behaviour
of a C program, running it in a controlled environment: I can't find
any information on how to begin finding out what is going wrong in a
whole operating system. Any suggestions gratefully received.
For the begin try using 'top' to see what is using CPU.
Except kernel there is number of system processes that are running all the
time like hald, d-bus etc. On a slower machine they would need more time to
accomplish tasks and load will appear almost steady.
Thanks. I agree with this and the original figures in my post were from
"top". But 97% of the time the CPU is doing nothing useful although
some process(es) not visible in "top" are raising the load average.
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Roger Hayter
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