folks, sorry if i am posting this here, but i am sort of clueless, and i'd love some advise from you wise people!
i have this AMD Thunderbird 1.3 GHz machine with 512Mb of SD-RAM, a 1Gb swap partition on a 20Gb 5400 seagate IDE drive. that's quite powerful, isn't it? Linux piper 2.4.9 #1 Tue Sep 11 15:39:28 CEST 2001 i686 unknown 16:45:25 up 13 days, 1:17, 7 users, load average: 3.40, 3.56, 3.70 84 processes: 83 sleeping, 1 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped CPU states: 0.8% user, 22.3% system, 1.0% nice, 75.9% idle Mem: 505844K total, 502788K used, 3056K free, 11456K buffers Swap: 996020K total, 31172K used, 964848K free, 438552K cached however, i am continuously having troubles. for instance, in a typical situation, i'd have windowmaker running with four terms, xmms playing some 192kbps MP3s, some ssh sessions into it, and an rsync, bzip/gzip, or make-kpkg process running. i am not usually interactively using X. in such a situation, xmms (or mpg123 without X, it doesn't matter) continuously skips on MP3s and it's *very* annoying. i even went as far as to renice xmms to -20 *and* rsync/bzip/gzip/make-kpkg to 20, but it doesn't really help. this is ridiculous. a 1.3 GHz machine should really be able to handle two intense processes at the same time, after all, UNIX is a true time-sharing OS. but i am at a loss why this thing is unable to handle two processes. any clues? -- martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.) \____ echo mailto: !#^."<*>"|tr "<*> mailto:"; [EMAIL PROTECTED] "no problem is so formidable that you can't just walk away from it." -- c. schulz
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