On Mon, 17 Sep 2001 13:54, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> The system hardware is as follows:
> 64 Meg GeForce2 MX
> 1024 MB RAM
> ASUS A7V133 Motherboard
> Athlon 1.2 Ghz CPU
> Pioneer DVD
> SB Live! Soundcard
> NetGear Ethernet (National Semiconductors Chipset)
> 40 Gig IBM 7200rpm IDE HDD
>
> All the hardware is up and working all OK, but i am having a fairly
> large performance issue which I cannot seem to work my way through....
> Whenever i am downloading files of about 40meg or higher or putting a
> medium to high load on the system , the machine becomes extremely slow
> and sometimes borderline on unresponsive.
>
> I have done some investigation work on the problem and found (from
> running top) that when the system does slow down the process 'kupdated'
> starts chewing alot of CPU resources.
> (I have noticed that linux is not using the full 1024 megs of RAM that i
> have which i am about to rectify shortly, i am unaware of this would be
> responsible somehow for this issue, but i doubt it..)
You should at least sort this out first, to eliminate it as a possibility.
How about booting with something like the following, as a temporary measure:-
<label> mem=512M (where label is what you'd normally type to enter linux from
the bootprompt. presuming LILO as bootloader)
I guess another place to start looking would be resource conflicts. I know my
motherboard manual tells me which slots have conflicts with which, and what
setups work and which dont.
I have a similar system, although only 640M RAM running same kernel. This is
why i suggest at least eliminating the RAM possibility, as mine runs fine.
For conflicts, you can probably cat /proc/interrupts etc.
Maybe none of this helps, just thoughts ;-)
Cheers,
Grant
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