Re: console locked again:: load over 2.00
On Wed, Nov 05, 2008 at 08:53:20PM +0100, Roland Smith wrote: On Wed, Nov 05, 2008 at 11:45:10AM -0800, Gary Kline wrote: Hey guys, Any ideas *why* my load is so high when my desktop wasn't touched for 9, 10 hours? I was running mostly KDE3 konsoles, and had a few other processes going, the apps iconisized. The server is still running; I've killed everything I can think of to reduce the load. It may be that the screen won't come back if the load is 1.00. I'm upgrading my kernel to see if *that* has any effect. O/wise, I'm out of ideas. Try leaving 'top -SI' running in a console window. That should tell you what the culprit is. Looks like gnome-xscreensaver went nutso after several hours. This morning I found my FreeBSD screen about a third full of green and yellow fuzz or blur. This time, I KVM'd over to ubuntu and did a shutdown and reboot at once; then killed the screen saver after getting back into KDE3. I was just listening to KMplayer and watching sites with required kde-gnash. When I Closed[*] the sites and killed the newscast, my load was still 1.50 so I did a killall of the kde-gnash. Needs to be some way of controlling the number of kde-gnashes that are spawned. After the killall, xload shows my load back down to practically nothing. --Still having trouble with *firefox* + flash, but that's another rat's nest. gary [*] iconizied Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) -- Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
console locked again:: load over 2.00
Hey guys, Any ideas *why* my load is so high when my desktop wasn't touched for 9, 10 hours? I was running mostly KDE3 konsoles, and had a few other processes going, the apps iconisized. The server is still running; I've killed everything I can think of to reduce the load. It may be that the screen won't come back if the load is 1.00. I'm upgrading my kernel to see if *that* has any effect. O/wise, I'm out of ideas. Anybody?? gary -- Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: console locked again:: load over 2.00
In response to Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Any ideas *why* my load is so high when my desktop wasn't touched for 9, 10 hours? I was running mostly KDE3 konsoles, and had a few other processes going, the apps iconisized. The server is still running; I've killed everything I can think of to reduce the load. It may be that the screen won't come back if the load is 1.00. I'm upgrading my kernel to see if *that* has any effect. O/wise, I'm out of ideas. Doesn't sound right at all. I've seen my load avgs go much higher than 2 on my desktop and not had much difficulty logging in. Generally, slow logins are a symptom of IO starvation, as an inability to get to a disk page is more of a show stopper than contention for CPU resources. How much of your swap is in use? What are the pagein/ pageout statistics during this? Are you sure the disk isn't dying? -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: console locked again:: load over 2.00
On Wed, Nov 05, 2008 at 11:45:10AM -0800, Gary Kline wrote: Hey guys, Any ideas *why* my load is so high when my desktop wasn't touched for 9, 10 hours? I was running mostly KDE3 konsoles, and had a few other processes going, the apps iconisized. The server is still running; I've killed everything I can think of to reduce the load. It may be that the screen won't come back if the load is 1.00. I'm upgrading my kernel to see if *that* has any effect. O/wise, I'm out of ideas. Try leaving 'top -SI' running in a console window. That should tell you what the culprit is. Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) pgpRVMuaJzeId.pgp Description: PGP signature
