Messages in this thread | | | From | "Jaswinder Singh" <> | Subject | Re: IDE Performance lack ! | Date | Sun, 27 May 2001 20:29:17 -0700 |
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"Miquel van Smoorenburg" <miquels@cistron-office.nl> wrote:
> > Are you sure it is idle. It might be running something from cron- > say 'updatedb' or similar. That will cause a lot of disk i/o, > and _ofcourse_ performance will be bad then - the machine is > doing a lot of other things. >
I am the only user who use my linux boxes , i never use cron , and i have no relation with database at all.
> It might also be that you don't have enough memory and the > machine is swapping itself to death. Running netscape or > mozilla perhaps? These are known to blow themselves up to > 50-100 MB (!). That will cause the exact symptoms you're seeing. >
I never go to X-Windows , i do all my work from console.
cat /proc/meminfo total: used: free: shared: buffers: cached: Mem: 114475008 111816704 2658304 5234688 68067328 24711168 Swap: 583954432 2654208 581300224 MemTotal: 111792 kB MemFree: 2596 kB MemShared: 5112 kB Buffers: 66472 kB Cached: 24132 kB SwapTotal: 570268 kB SwapFree: 567676 kB
> > 2.4.2 isn't all that good either.. 2.4.x doesn't have VM sorted > out just yet >
may be this problem of VM as suggested by Mark Hahn.
Thank you,
Jaswinder. -- These are my opinions not 3Di.
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