Do a 'top' and sort via cpu and memory to see which eats up your resources.
On 4/7/06, 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 > > > _________________________________________________ > Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List > [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) > Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists > Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph > _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
