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top - 16:19:18 up 26 min, 2 users, load average: 1.26, 1.32, 1.26 Tasks: 138 total, 1 running, 137 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie Cpu(s): 21.9%us, 11.9%sy, 0.0%ni, 65.9%id, 0.3%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st Mem: 507324k total, 495336k used, 11988k free, 7300k buffers Swap: 2104476k total, 59552k used, 2044924k free, 106012k cached PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 893 root 20 0 142m 35m 4540 S 12.2 7.3 2:12.75 Xorg 2314 wes 20 0 92356 10m 8256 S 5.3 2.1 0:03.86 gnome-terminal 1952 wes 20 0 97984 13m 6564 S 2.0 2.8 0:24.78 plugin-containe 1921 wes 20 0 425m 88m 12m S 1.3 17.8 2:25.95 firefox-bin 1711 wes 20 0 78048 9356 6960 S 0.7 1.8 0:04.64 wnck-applet 2337 wes 20 0 2624 968 720 R 0.7 0.2 0:00.72 top 1639 wes 20 0 146m 9124 7048 S 0.3 1.8 0:04.93 metacity 1831 wes 20 0 43188 17m 2152 S 0.3 3.5 0:08.11 ubuntuone-syncd 1851 wes 20 0 426m 74m 13m S 0.3 15.0 2:47.82 thunderbird-bin 1861 wes 20 0 35608 14m 4188 S 0.3 2.9 0:05.26 ubuntu-sso-logi 1 root 20 0 2892 952 640 S 0.0 0.2 0:00.67 init 2 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kthreadd 3 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.34 ksoftirqd/0 4 root RT 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 migration/0 5 root RT 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 watchdog/0 6 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.06 events/0 7 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 cpuset 8 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 khelper 9 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 netns 10 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 async/mgr 11 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 pm 12 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 sync_supers 13 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 bdi-default 14 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kintegrityd/0 15 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:01.16 kblockd/0 16 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kacpid 17 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kacpi_notify 18 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kacpi_hotplug 19 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 ata_aux 20 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.22 ata_sff/0 21 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 khubd 22 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kseriod 23 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kmmcd 25 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 khungtaskd 26 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:01.52 kswapd0 27 root 25 5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 ksmd 28 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 aio/0 On 01/21/2011 11:47 PM, Horst wrote: > > I have 30 GB unused disk space and 500MB of ram. > Firefox can be a real memory hog. > > To answer previous questions about *what* is taking up your resources, > on the cmd line enter > top > and paste the header lines (showing mem, swap, etc.) and the following > 10 or so lines into your email. > Copy right after a screen refresh, and quit 'top' with 'q' > > - Horst > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > *From:* Joseph Weston Morgan <morg...@efn.org> > *To:* euglug@euglug.org > *Sent:* Fri, January 21, 2011 12:53:58 PM > *Subject:* [Eug-lug] Fwd: slow system > > > > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: slow system > Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2011 18:03:09 -0800 > From: Joseph Weston Morgan <morg...@efn.org> > To: euglug@euglug.org > > > > My system is slowing to a crawl. I have gone through the forums and > have found that updating the kernel can solve the problem. If I don't > do this right, could it screw up my entire system? I am running > Ubuntu 10.10. I have 30 GB unused disk space and 500MB of ram. > > Wes Morgan > > > > > Is your Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick slow and sluggish? Make it run better. > > By Vik <http://www.techgarten.com/author/admin/> ? October 27, 2010 ? > Post a comment > <http://www.techgarten.com/ubuntu/ubuntu-1010-maverick-slow-sluggish-run/#comments> > > > *Filed Under* 10.10 <http://www.techgarten.com/tag/10-10/>, amd64 > <http://www.techgarten.com/tag/amd64/>, kernel > <http://www.techgarten.com/tag/kernel/>, lag > <http://www.techgarten.com/tag/lag/>, linux > <http://www.techgarten.com/tag/linux/>, maverick > <http://www.techgarten.com/tag/maverick/>, meerkat > <http://www.techgarten.com/tag/meerkat/>, power > <http://www.techgarten.com/tag/power/>, slow > <http://www.techgarten.com/tag/slow/>, sluggish > <http://www.techgarten.com/tag/sluggish/>, ubuntu > <http://www.techgarten.com/tag/ubuntu-2/>, wget > <http://www.techgarten.com/tag/wget/>, x86 > <http://www.techgarten.com/tag/x86/> > > I recently installed the latest (10.10) version of Ubuntu. My oh my. > Its really unpolished under the hood to say the least. Loved the new > font, love the background. But, as soon as I started using it on full > power (Firefox with 30+ tabs, Compiz), it just borked. I experienced > 15 second lags and it was a wholly unhappy experience. Searching > through the forums proved that I wasn't the only one who was > suffering. Aware of the fact that a re-install of 10.04 would cost me > hours, I was sure there was a solution out there. Thats when I > stumbled across this post > <http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=9962335&postcount=93> in > Ubuntu Forums. > > *EDIT:*Skip to updated instructions at the bottom > <http://www.techgarten.com/ubuntu/ubuntu-1010-maverick-slow-sluggish-run/#updatedStable>. > Upgrade your kernel to *2.6.36-rc7* kernel, and you're going to see a > considerable improvement. Instructions as follows: > > 1 > 2 > 3 > > *<*del datetime="2010-10-26T18:54:00+00:00"*>**sudo* *su* - > *cd* */* > *wget* http://kernel.ubuntu.com/%7Ekernel-ppa/mainline/v2.6.36-rc7- > maverick*/*linux-headers-2.6.36-020636rc7_2.6.36-020636rc7.201010070908_all.deb*</*del*>* > > For x64 > > 1 > 2 > > *<*del datetime="2010-10-26T18:54:00+00:00"*>**wget* > http://kernel.ubuntu.com/%7Ekernel- > ppa*/*mainline*/*v2.6.36-rc7-maverick*/*linux-headers-2.6.36-020636rc7-generic_ > 2.6.36-020636rc7.201010070908_amd64.deb > *wget* > http://kernel.ubuntu.com/%7Ekernel-ppa/mainline/v2.6.36-rc7-maverick/linux- > image-2.6.36-020636rc7-generic_2.6.36-020636rc7.201010070908_amd64.deb*</*del*>* > > For x86 > > 1 > 2 > 3 > > *<*del datetime="2010-10-26T18:54:00+00:00"*>**wget* > http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~ > kernel-ppa*/*mainline*/*v2.6.36-rc7-maverick*/*linux-headers-2.6.36-020636rc7- > generic_2.6.36-020636rc7.201010070908_i386.deb > *wget* http:*//*kernel.ubuntu.com*/*~kernel-ppa*/*mainline*/*v2.6.36-rc7- > <http://kernel.ubuntu.com/%7Ekernel-ppa/mainline/v2.6.36-rc7-> > maverick*/*linux-image-2.6.36-020636rc7-generic_2.6.36-020636rc7.201010070908_i386.deb > *dpkg* -i > linux-headers-2.6.36-020636rc7_2.6.36-020636rc7.201010070908_all.deb*</*del*>* > > And, to end, depending on which version you've downloaded, change the > following code to suit your needs: > > 1 > 2 > > *<*del datetime="2010-10-26T18:54:00+00:00"*>**dpkg* -i > linux-headers-2.6.36-020636rc7 > -generic_2.6.36-020636rc7.201010070908_amd64.deb > *dpkg* -i linux-image-2.6.36-020636rc7-generic_2.6.36-020636rc7. > 201010070908_i386.deb*</*del*>* > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > EUGLUG mailing list > euglug@euglug.org > http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
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