I would be curious to see your "top" output when the RHN update is done. I have had that applet hog my CPU before.
Message: 3 Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2003 18:01:59 +0100 (CET) From: Runar Bell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: RedHat 8.0 on Via (Cyrix) C3 1GHz - very slow Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi, and thanks for many good advices. Unfortunately, none of them seems to do the trick for me. * top: Acts as if I were running RedHat on a very very slow computer. Load > 2 just for running top! Here is the two tops (I am running up2date at the moment): 64 processes: 62 sleeping, 2 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped CPU states: 78.3% user, 21.6% system, 0.0% nice, 0.0% idle Mem: 255592K av, 210960K used, 44632K free, 0K shrd, 10960K buff Swap: 257000K av, 0K used, 257000K free 111172K cached PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND 985 root 25 0 43760 42M 13168 R 50.3 17.0 30:37 up2date 956 runarbel 15 0 16196 15M 9916 S 17.8 6.3 34:56 rhn-applet-gui * free: total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 255592 213264 42328 0 12796 111300 -/+ buffers/cache: 89168 166424 Swap: 257000 0 257000 * cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor_id : CentaurHauls cpu family : 6 model : 8 model name : VIA C3 Ezra stepping : 9 cpu MHz : 1007.408 cache size : 64 KB fdiv_bug : no hlt_bug : no f00f_bug : no coma_bug : no fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 1 wp : yes flags : fpu de tsc msr cx8 mtrr pge mmx 3dnow bogomips : 1998.84 * dmesg: No error messages ... Does this tell you anything? :) Best regards, Runar Bell On Wed, 26 Mar 2003, Nicholas Marsh wrote: > I have a Via C3 800 that I got for $199.00 (Walmart.com/Lindows.com) that is now > running Red Hat 8.0 with no problems. > > Maybe you have some kind of hardware issue or a "runaway process". Or if there is > alot disk I/O maybe you need more memory. > > Here are a couple of things to try: > > top (look for high CPU usage) > free (check RAM usage) > cat /proc/cpuinfo (verify the CPU was detected correctly) > dmesg (look for error messages) > > nick marsh > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
