Re: Need advice on performance troubleshooting

2010-10-27 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 10/23/2010 09:54 PM, Marko Vojinovic wrote: > Anyway, you seem to be right! Restarting X purged most of the swap, from > 1.3 GB it went down to 31.4 MB. And the system regained responsiveness. Whatever is using swap is probably the application using the most RAM. Take a look at 'System Monitor

Re: Need advice on performance troubleshooting

2010-10-24 Thread Garry T. Williams
On Sunday, October 24, 2010 12:36:52 stan wrote: > There is probably a tool designed for this specific purpose, though > I'm not aware of it. On Saturday, October 23, 2010 21:38:23 Marko Vojinovic wrote: > I'm at a loss where and how to look for memory and performance > drain. Just run top(1) to

Re: Need advice on performance troubleshooting

2010-10-24 Thread stan
On Sun, 24 Oct 2010 05:54:56 +0100 Marko Vojinovic wrote: > Just tried it, logged out and logged back in. Didn't go to runlevel > 3, X gets restarted with only logging out and in, AFAIK. You're probably right. I think of X as this huge complex beast that sits between the OS and me, and think of

Re: Need advice on performance troubleshooting

2010-10-24 Thread JB
Marko Vojinovic gmail.com> writes: > ... Hi, $ yum info sysstat http://sebastien.godard.pagesperso-orange.fr/ Features. Documentation. Tutorials. FAQ $ man sar Btw, because you used ssh service, have you run rkhunter and chkrootkit, both available from Fedora repo ? JB -- users mailin

Re: Need advice on performance troubleshooting

2010-10-24 Thread Roberto Ragusa
Marko Vojinovic wrote: > On Sunday, October 24, 2010 04:18:02 stan wrote: >> On Sun, 24 Oct 2010 02:38:23 +0100 >> >> Marko Vojinovic wrote: >>> I am experiencing a gradual performance drop problem --- having a >>> machine running 24/7, after some time (say, two weeks) the system >>> becomes incre

Re: Need advice on performance troubleshooting

2010-10-23 Thread fred smith
On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 02:38:23AM +0100, Marko Vojinovic wrote: > > Hi folks! :-) > > I am experiencing a gradual performance drop problem --- having a machine > running 24/7, after some time (say, two weeks) the system becomes > increasingly > slow, in terms of desktop response. It takes sev

Re: Need advice on performance troubleshooting

2010-10-23 Thread stan
On Sun, 24 Oct 2010 02:38:23 +0100 Marko Vojinovic wrote: > I am experiencing a gradual performance drop problem --- having a > machine running 24/7, after some time (say, two weeks) the system > becomes increasingly slow, in terms of desktop response. > > The symptoms appear like something is