Lord Sauron wrote: >>You might also want to use top to see what, if anything, is using up >>your CPU time. Also keep in mind that if the CPU is fairly idle that >>the hard drive may be busy as well. I ran into this once before on a >>really slow system and it was the updatedb program. It was nice'd >>correctly but that doesn't apply to the hard drive. I read earlier that >>they are working on that too though. >> >> > >On my laptop, it used to be (under the tyranny of the 350meg windows >pagefile) that if the hard drive lit up the system was busy. Under >linux if the cpu lights up it's busy. It's a nice change. The hard >drive for the X40 is so darn slow... > >-- >========== GCv3.12 ========== >GCS d-(++) s+: a? C++ UL+>++++ P+ >L++ E--- W+(+++) N++ o? K? w--- O? M+ >V? PS- PE+ Y-(--) PGP- t+++ 5? X R tv-- b+ > DI+++ D+ G e* h- !r !y >========= END GCv3.12 ======== > > >
My light blew out on one of my servers. No smoke but still no workey. :-( I have to use top instead. Since the drive is so old, I can hear it with no problems at all. Dale :-) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
