Re: [gentoo-user] Re: load too high

2008-02-16 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Fri, 2008-02-15 at 17:29 +0100, Alex Schuster wrote: > Neil Bothwick writes: > > > On Fri, 15 Feb 2008 10:14:22 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: > > > > The cruelty is actually worse: the machines that will benefit most > > > > from an OOo compile from source, are those old, low memory, asthmatic

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: load too high

2008-02-15 Thread Alex Schuster
Neil Bothwick writes: > On Fri, 15 Feb 2008 10:14:22 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: > > > The cruelty is actually worse: the machines that will benefit most > > > from an OOo compile from source, are those old, low memory, asthmatic > > > boxen, that take two days to complete the emerge! I am tempt

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: load too high

2008-02-15 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 15 Feb 2008 10:14:22 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: > > The cruelty is actually worse: the machines that will benefit most > > from an OOo compile from source, are those old, low memory, asthmatic > > boxen, that take two days to complete the emerge! I am tempted to > > start cross-compilin

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: load too high

2008-02-14 Thread Iain Buchanan
sorry to hijack the thread even further... On Thu, 2008-02-14 at 23:04 +, Mick wrote: > On Thursday 14 February 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > On Thursday 14 February 2008, Iain Buchanan wrote: > > > On Thu, 2008-02-14 at 01:20 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > > Ahem. 'scuse me: > > > > > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: load too high

2008-02-14 Thread Mick
On Thursday 14 February 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Thursday 14 February 2008, Iain Buchanan wrote: > > On Thu, 2008-02-14 at 01:20 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > Ahem. 'scuse me: > > > > > > I have 5.5G for /var/tmp > > > Wanna guess why? > > > > well, this is Gentoo, so "compile X" where X

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: load too high

2008-02-14 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 14 February 2008, Iain Buchanan wrote: > On Thu, 2008-02-14 at 01:20 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > Ahem. 'scuse me: > > > > I have 5.5G for /var/tmp > > Wanna guess why? > > well, this is Gentoo, so "compile X" where X= package> probably still fits :) Openoffice for example? spot

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: load too high

2008-02-13 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Thu, 2008-02-14 at 01:20 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Thursday 14 February 2008, Iain Buchanan wrote: > > how about cron jobs like updatedb? Is there any disk activity? > > -- > > Iain Buchanan > > > > i have 4gb for /tmp > > What do you do with 4G /tmp? Compile X? > > yes > > Ahem.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: load too high

2008-02-13 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 14 February 2008, Iain Buchanan wrote: > how about cron jobs like updatedb? Is there any disk activity? > -- > Iain Buchanan > > i have 4gb for /tmp > What do you do with 4G /tmp? Compile X? > yes Ahem. 'scuse me: I have 5.5G for /var/tmp Wanna guess why? -- Alan McKinnon al

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: load too high

2008-02-13 Thread Iain Buchanan
how about cron jobs like updatedb? Is there any disk activity? -- Iain Buchanan i have 4gb for /tmp What do you do with 4G /tmp? Compile X? yes -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: load too high

2008-02-13 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 12 February 2008, James wrote: > Alan McKinnon gmail.com> writes: > > > One of the workstations (amd64 2gig ram) has a load that never > > > drops below 1.0, as seen by top. Looking at a ps nothing stands > > > out. I did notice that 'X' is at the top of the list, even when > > > the ma

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: load too high

2008-02-13 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 13 February 2008, James wrote: > James R. Campbell reliant-data.com> writes: > > What processes have the most on cpu time as reported by a 'ps ax' ? > > not certain what your are asking. Here is the result of ps ax: He probably meant 'ps axu' -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at g

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: load too high

2008-02-12 Thread Henry Gebhardt
> Any ideas? No.But do you also see this without X running, without most daemons running, in single user mode...?