On Mon, May 17, 2004 at 05:07:32PM +0300, Aaron wrote: > Hi all, > > I am experiencing speed problems and I need a way to diagnose what is > causing it. > > > I find myself waiting often for one process to finish before I can start > another. I also have windows that freeze. >
If you are using X, try to run top in a visible console while starting an app that causes a freeze and see if the cpu usage goes up. Also look at the disk lamp and see if its on while the computer freezes (to indicate swap or disk access). > I tried tuning hdparm but it didn't effect system performance. > > I am running the following that may effect things: > > Zope server > Mysql server > pptp pppd etc. cable internet connection > apache-perl to run mysqladmin ( can probably drop this since zope has a > mysql managment interface) > amule > artsd > automount > getty (is this needed if not what app runs this process?) getty is the program that listens on the console VTs for a login (if you switch to the console its whats asking for a username and password) it can also listen on your serial line and modem line (which can be considered a serial line) if you have active consoles there. It is being run be the init process but shouldn't be taking much ram (you can change how many consoles to activate, and thus how many getty processes to run in /etc/inittab). > samba > wu-ftpd (which I still can't figure out how to configure) > > I have a dual processor pentium III 500mhz system with 128megs ram (I > had 256 but one chip died) > That could be a problem, especially if you are also running X with a heavy window manager such as gnome or kde. Try running free to see how much memory and swap you are using. > > What can I do to improve my system performance? > Find the bottleneck and then see if it can be solved or upgraded. > Thanks > Aaron > > ================================================================= > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command > echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > This Mail Was Scanned By Mail-seCure System > at the Tel-Aviv University CC. > ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
