Hi. I am having some strange performance problems when booted under
systemd. These problems happened a little bit under openrc, but are
much more pronounced with systemd.
I am using just virtual consoles, no gui whatsoever at the moment. I
also use tmux with 4 windows in one of the vcs. My system is an i7
processor, quod core and 16g of ram and 2g of swap space which appears
not to be used. I am using uvesafb for the console, so I get 64x160
screens.
The first problem is that if I don't press any keystrokes for several
minutes and then want to move to another vc, it takes about 3 or 4
seconds after the alt-left arrow or alt-right arrow command to take
effect. Even within the same vt, if I don't do anything for several
minutes, it takes several seconds till the keystroke echoes and
something happens. Once I have done this, things act normally, but its
kind of annoying. Also, my load average seems to always be >1. I have
looked at top and things seem to be OK, except that my cpu usage is like
this:
Tasks: 934 total, 2 running, 931 sleeping, 0 stopped, 1 zombie
%Cpu(s): 12.5 us, 1.2 sy, 0.0 ni, 86.0 id, 0.2 wa, 0.0 hi, 0.0 si,
0.0 st
KiB Mem: 16450248 total, 9678656 used, 6771592 free, 1084088 buffers
KiB Swap: 2097148 total, 4 used, 2097144 free. 1147688 cached
Mem
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+
COMMAND
9969 root 20 0 708 16 0 R 100.0 0.0 1549:10 v86d
579 root 30 10 0 0 0 S 9.1 0.0 16:09.93
speakup
11789 root 20 0 22524 2388 1116 R 0.7 0.0 0:00.03 top
7 root 0 -20 0 0 0 S 0.3 0.0 0:10.41
kworker/u:0H
and onward ...
This is an awful lot of tasks, I have never seen so many!
Anyone have any ideas? Thanks much.
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