Anand Kumria wrote:
> First of all Rusell, WHEN USE UPPERCASE YOU ARE SHOUTING. It is
> considered impolite.
>
> On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 11:28:36PM +1000, Russell Andrew Willis wrote:
> > I am running a Pentium 350 II 64 MB RAM & 10 GB HDD. RH runs ok under
> > XWindow & Gnome but I get get continuous HDD access when logged on as
> > user or root. When I log out this ceases. I'm a newbie & can see it has
> > something todo with the Xwindow or gnome system. Have enclosed a copy of
> > top command showing activity after a few disk accesses (no other progs
> > except browser). Frustrating & would appreciate guidance.
>
> The image hasn't come through for me (and no doubt others) because it was
> never attached to the message.
>
> You are supposed to get frequent disk access whenever you use Linux as it
> will be flushing data to disk (or swapping). To determine which of those
> it is doing type 'free' at the command line. If most of your swap is being
> used then you have two choices:
> - get more memory
> - run fewer programs
>
> Anand
Dear Anand,
Thank you for your prompt advice, my apologies for my lack of proper
etiquette. I have subsequently attached a screen capture of top command that
may assist in pinpointing the regular access of my hdd. I have sorted by CPU
usage. From what I can see my swap usage at startup is only about 1.48% of
available, Mem stats however are 97.57% used ? (when I obtained this data I
had just booted into the gnome gui, a few panel applets running but no
programs). Is this amount of memory usage the usual ?, if so then more memory
is the way to go. I presume the number of programs running is not the issue.
Many thanks
Russell
[H[2J[H[1m 1:37pm up 6 min, 2 users, load average: 0.10, 0.28, 0.16[K
50 processes: 49 sleeping, 1 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped[K
CPU states: 6.2% user, 9.7% system, 0.0% nice, 84.0% idle[K
Mem: 62808K av, 61280K used, 1528K free, 47976K shrd, 1308K buff[K
Swap: 208804K av, 3100K used, 205704K free 11792K cached[K
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809 RussellW 15 0 1024 1024 816 R 1.9 1.6 0:00 top[K
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402 nobody 0 0 508 488 396 S 0.0 0.7 0:00 identd[K
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513 root 0 0 1092 884 696 S 0.0 1.4 0:00 sendmail[K
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626 root 0 0 440 440 372 S 0.0 0.7 0:00 mingetty[K
627 root 0 0 440 440 372 S 0.0 0.7 0:00 mingetty[K
628 root 0 0 440 440 372 S 0.0 0.7 0:00 mingetty[K
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630 root 0 0 440 440 372 S 0.0 0.7 0:00
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638 root 9 0 91704 86M 2080 S 0.7 141.7 0:05 X[K
809 RussellW 17 0 1024 1024 816 R 0.5 1.6 0:00 top[K
684 RussellW 2 0 3164 3164 2504 S 0.1 5.0 0:00 magicdev[K
697 RussellW 4 0 3544 3544 2164 S 0.1 5.6 0:01 sawfish[K
797 RussellW 3 0 4572 4572 3280 S 0.1 7.2 0:00 gnome-terminal[K
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61 root 0 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 khubd[K
308 root 0 0 756 752 368 S 0.0 1.1 0:00 klogd[K
323 rpc 0 0 508 504 416 S 0.0 0.8 0:00 portmap[K
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461 lp 0 0 576 540 448 S 0.0 0.8 0:00 lpd[K
513 root 0 0 1092 884 696 S 0.0 1.4 0:00 sendmail[K
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544 root 0 0 644 644 540 S 0.0 1.0 0:00 crond[K
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626 root 0 0 440 440 372 S 0.0 0.7 0:00 mingetty[K
627 root 0 0 440 440 372 S 0.0 0.7 0:00
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2 users, load average: 0.08, 0.27, 0.16[K
50 processes: 49 sleeping, 1 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped[K
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809 RussellW 10 0 1024 1024 816 R 1.4 1.6 0:00 top[K
684 RussellW 1 0 3164 3164 2504 S 0.3 5.0 0:00 magicdev
--sm-config-prefix /magicdev-j4uOmf/ --sm-client-id 117[K
767 RussellW 0 0 5396 5396 3768 S 0.3 8.5 0:02 panel --sm-config-prefix
/panel.d/default-2dRwnb/ --sm-client-id[K
776 RussellW 1 0 4024 4024 2920 S 0.3 6.4 0:00 deskguide_applet
--activate-goad-server deskguide_applet --goad-[K
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6 root -20 -20 0 0 0 SW< 0.0 0.0 0:00 mdrecoveryd[K
61 root 0 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 khubd[K
308 root 0 0 756 752 368 S 0.0 1.1 0:00 klogd[K
323 rpc 0 0 508 504 416 S 0.0 0.8 0:00 portmap[K
339 root 0 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 lockd[K
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350 rpcuser 0 0 724 724 612 S 0.0 1.1 0:00 rpc.statd[K
402 nobody 0 0 508 488 396 S 0.0 0.7 0:00 identd -e -o[K
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409 nobody 0 0 508 488 396 S 0.0 0.7 0:00 identd -e -o[K
421 daemon 0 0 376 364 300 S 0.0 0.5 0:00 /usr/sbin/atd[K
461 lp 0 0 576 540 448 S 0.0 0.8 0:00 lpd Waiting [K
513 root 0 0 1092 884 696 S 0.0 1.4 0:00 sendmail: accepting
connections[K
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544 root 0 0 644 644 540 S 0.0 1.0 0:00 crond[K
577 xfs 0 0 2988 2944 628 S 0.0 4.6 0:00 xfs -droppriv -daemon[K
610 root 0 0 372 364 308 S 0.0 0.5 0:00 rhnsd --interval 120[K
626 root 0 0 440 440 372 S 0.0 0.7 0:00 /sbin/mingetty tty1[K
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628 root 0 0 440 440 372 S 0.0 0.7 0:00 /sbin/mingetty
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298 root 12 0 560 560 460 S 0.9 0.8 0:04 syslogd -m 0[K
684 RussellW 2 0 3164 3164 2504 S 0.4 5.0 0:00 magicdev
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4 root 0 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 kpiod[K
5 root 0 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 kswapd[K
6 root -20 -20 0 0 0 SW< 0.0 0.0 0:00 mdrecoveryd[K
61 root 0 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 khubd[K
308 root 0 0 756 752 368 S 0.0 1.1 0:00 klogd[K
323 rpc 0 0 508 504 416 S 0.0 0.8 0:00 portmap[K
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421 daemon 0 0 376 364 300 S 0.0 0.5 0:00 /usr/sbin/atd[K
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513 root 0 0 1092 884 696 S 0.0 1.4 0:00 sendmail: accepting
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628 root 0 0 440 440 372 S 0.0 0.7 0:00 /sbin/mingetty tty3[K
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