On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 01:53:59PM +1000, Russell Andrew Willis wrote:
> > 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
Yeah, I see that you have X showing at 141% which does seem a litte large.
Mine is running pretty much at 28% on a Pentium 233MHz with 3 Meg RAM/64 Meg
swap. To me your X seems to be taking a little too much.
Anand Kumria wrote:
> > 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
Yes it may be frequent but Russel said "continuous" and we need to work out
from Russel what continuous means ie going on for more than a few minutes?
> PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND
> 638 root 9 0 91704 86M 2080 S 0.7 141.7 0:05 X[K
Mike
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