On Friday 07 Jan 2011 17:07:30 Bob Proulx wrote: > Neil Youngman wrote: > > It can take several seconds to pop up a menu and, in the worst case, > > swapping from one window to another can take minutes, even if the > > other window is a simple xterm. I have also observed windows being > > redrawn so slowly that you can can see the rendering creeping slowly > > down the screen. I think that this all indicates that the graphics > > is the root of the problem. > > To me this suggests that you have a process that is consuming all of > your memory. This is causing your system to swap.
That's a reasonable theory. The main reason I don't think it's primarily a swapping issue, is that it seems sluggish even before I load up all the memory hogs. When I was running lenny, I did find that loading up big Java apps could bring the system grinding to a halt, but it was much more responsive before I loaded up the memory hogs. I will continue to observe the system, with swapping in mind as a possible factor and see if there is a correlation. Neil Youngman -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201101071828.11767...@youngman.org.uk
