2011/1/8 Neil Youngman <[email protected]>: > On Friday 07 Jan 2011 18:39:52 Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: >> > I will continue to observe the system, with swapping in mind as a >> > possible factor and see if there is a correlation. >> >> But if it was swapping you would see the HDD light being lit when you >> were not doing any obvious disk activity. If you have not seen that then >> it is not swapping. > > The system box is under a desk and the HDD light is not easily visible. > >> I have CPU load monitors in both X and VT. Does your CPU load go up when >> you get these difficulties? > > I have BOINC mopping up my spare cycles, so it's rarely below 100%. Stopping > BOINC for a while might be a worthwhile diagnostic at some point. > > Neil Youngman
I'm currently running sid/experimental, with BOINC taking up to 100% of CPU system is quite responsive; here are some of my observations: when running gnome system was almost unusable - GUI was pretty much unresponsive; XFCE was much better but glitches got on my nerves, after trying LXDE I started using fluxbox - now it is working almost w/o any problems; on really heavy load sometimes memory manager is causing flood to memory (memory leak taking up to 6GB RAM in 2s); these floods are happening almost always when listening music; most often it happens with VLC. Now I just kill -9 vlc and move on; This may look bad but in fact it is quite good - on older kernels (2.6.36 and lower) I also experienced random fs crash - sometimes even 2 or 3 in one day (when I was still using lenny); and remember that when you are starting BOINC it is loading its apps and data in to memory, which may take some time darkestkhan ------------------------------------------ jid: [email protected] May The Source be with You. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/aanlkti�[email protected]
