On Monday 15 Jul 2002 9:45 pm, you wrote: > On Monday 15 Jul 2002 9:12 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: > > During the evening my machine has got slower and slower, and now it takes > > almost a minute to open any application. I have logged out, and even > > halted, but it persists.
> > How, using Process Management, can I identify the process(es) causing my > > problem, so that I can hang up? > > > > Anne > > Just open KDE system guard and you will see the % usage of each > application. Unfortunately these tools only help if you know what to look for. I'm lost. > > Alternatively on the console just type 'top' Again, without knowing what I'm looking for it's difficult. The memory usage is slowly creeping up, but here is what I'm seeing: 2095 root 14 -10 52812 11M 2276 S < 1.9 2.2 0:33 X 3395 anne 15 0 9916 9916 7496 R 1.1 1.9 0:01 konsole 3423 anne 11 0 1036 1036 812 R 0.1 0.2 0:00 top 1 root 8 0 504 504 440 S 0.0 0.0 0:07 init 2 root 9 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 keventd 3 root 9 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 kapmd 4 root 19 19 0 0 0 SWN 0.0 0.0 0:00 ksoftirqd_CPU0 5 root 9 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 kswapd 6 root 9 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 bdflush 7 root 9 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 kupdated 8 root -1 -20 0 0 0 SW< 0.0 0.0 0:00 mdrecoveryd 66 root 9 0 892 892 692 S 0.0 0.1 0:00 devfsd 220 root 9 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 khubd 1010 root 9 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 eth0 1092 rpc 9 0 532 532 440 S 0.0 0.1 0:00 portmap 1115 root 9 0 592 592 476 S 0.0 0.1 0:00 syslogd 1124 root 9 0 1108 1108 428 S 0.0 0.2 0:00 klogd Any suggestions? Anne
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