memory usage

[jim]

Do ya think I need to get more memory?
I have 256 in here now on my notebook

see image

[tejas]

What for? Fedora is built in such a way that at any time it will try to use up all of your memory.

It is how much swapspace you have left which is the indication if you are meeting your memory needs

[jim]

Yeah, i created a swap patition of only 500MB figured it was enough. This re-re-install is much slower than the previous 2.
What i mean by slower is
A. windows being created or destroyed is very slow.
B. The desktop not getting repainted or updated (have to do a CTRL + R to update the desktop)

There is other little quirks that i can't think of now but hopefully FC4 will be a step in the right direction.

[jim]

and this is bothersome

[jim@Notebook ~]$ su -
Password:
[root@Notebook ~]# service cpuspeed status
cpuspeed dead but subsys locked
[root@Notebook ~]#

[AndyGreen]

Have a quick

top

fedorajim... can something be eating 100% CPU?

[jim]

her is the *top*


Tasks: 94 total, 1 running, 92 sleeping, 0 stopped, 1 zombie
Cpu(s): 5.3% us, 0.2% sy, 0.0% ni, 94.5% id, 0.0% wa, 0.0% hi, 0.0% si
Mem: 223380k total, 212016k used, 11364k free, 8284k buffers
Swap: 514040k total, 163308k used, 350732k free, 78472k cached

PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
6888 jim 15 0 38120 14m 9420 S 4.7 6.5 0:02.15 gnome-terminal
4157 root 15 0 187m 35m 9412 S 0.6 16.1 1:41.08 X
1 root 16 0 1684 484 456 S 0.0 0.2 0:00.50 init
2 root 34 19 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 ksoftirqd/0
3 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.10 events/0
4 root 11 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 khelper
9 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kthread
18 root 11 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.11 kacpid
109 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kblockd/0
117 root 15 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.05 khubd
170 root 15 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.02 pdflush
171 root 15 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.08 pdflush
173 root 16 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 aio/0
172 root 15 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:02.57 kswapd0
268 root 21 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kseriod
463 root 15 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.06 kjournald
1455 root 11 -5 2900 388 384 S 0.0 0.2 0:00.01 udevd
1556 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.05 ipw2200/0
2498 root 19 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 pccardd
2763 root 19 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kjournald
2764 root 15 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.05 kjournald
3203 root 18 0 1548 464 460 S 0.0 0.2 0:00.00 cardmgr
3369 root 16 0 3016 528 476 S 0.0 0.2 0:00.03 syslogd
3373 root 16 0 1536 384 380 S 0.0 0.2 0:00.00 klogd
3440 root 16 0 4044 644 620 S 0.0 0.3 0:00.00 rpc.idmapd
3474 root 16 0 1812 620 472 S 0.0 0.3 0:00.00 smartd
3484 root 16 0 1528 444 440 S 0.0 0.2 0:00.00 acpid
3494 root 21 0 3976 688 684 S 0.0 0.3 0:00.10 sshd
3505 root 15 0 2144 472 468 S 0.0 0.2 0:00.00 xinetd
3515 root 16 0 1740 456 444 S 0.0 0.2 0:00.00 gpm
3542 xfs 16 0 3356 1368 700 S 0.0 0.6 0:00.13 xfs

[AndyGreen]

Oh well, 94% idle says your slow updates are due to something else.

[jim]

lemme try opening a bunch of stuff and see if you can see sumthin * )

EDIT Of course this will make a fool out of me
maybe turning off spamd help

[gavinw6662]

how did you create that little menu jim (1-10 with those options)?? Is it a simple script???

[jim]

See my home page
http://www.fedorajim.homelinux.com

There should be a link for a script