Re: [newbie] slow Linux
How do you check for multiple instances of apache running...? that could be my problem also...netscape keeps freezing on me, for some reason...and that could be WHY. Charles Ulwelling wrote: Check to see if you have a bunch of instances of httpd running, thats apache and it screwed me earlier today... later charles Ulwelling -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of HAL 9000 Sent: Sunday, March 26, 2000 8:19 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] slow Linux hello all.. i just installed Mandrake and i used a larger swap partition. now its acting a bit laggy. i have SETI@Home running, but it has never acted the way it is now. i can watch the windows maximizing and iconifying aand its a bit "jumpy when that happens. any ideas? thanks seth -- ===KompuKit=== Kit Goins ICQ# 7110071 [EMAIL PROTECTED]Lowell, Mass. Web Designer http://kitdesigns.bizhosting.com WebServer:http://kompukit.dyndns.org (Server Runs between M-F 6pm-12am,S+S 12pm-12am EST) ===KompuKit===
RE: [newbie] slow Linux
I'm not in linux right now... but you can run a app called ktop... you just type ktop and it should pop up a graphical system monitor, I would change it so you could see all the processes that are running(Its a drop down menu at the bottom of the app) and see if you have a bunch of httpd's. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of KompuKit Sent: Sunday, March 26, 2000 5:27 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] slow Linux How do you check for multiple instances of apache running...? that could be my problem also...netscape keeps freezing on me, for some reason...and that could be WHY. Charles Ulwelling wrote: Check to see if you have a bunch of instances of httpd running, thats apache and it screwed me earlier today... later charles Ulwelling -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of HAL 9000 Sent: Sunday, March 26, 2000 8:19 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] slow Linux hello all.. i just installed Mandrake and i used a larger swap partition. now its acting a bit laggy. i have SETI@Home running, but it has never acted the way it is now. i can watch the windows maximizing and iconifying aand its a bit "jumpy when that happens. any ideas? thanks seth -- ===KompuKit=== Kit Goins ICQ# 7110071 [EMAIL PROTECTED]Lowell, Mass. Web Designer http://kitdesigns.bizhosting.com WebServer:http://kompukit.dyndns.org (Server Runs between M-F 6pm-12am,S+S 12pm-12am EST) ===KompuKit===
Re: [newbie] slow Linux
At the moment SETI@Home is taking 97% of my CPU (PII 450), and I'm having no problems with speed at all. Charles Ulwelling wrote: Check to see if you have a bunch of instances of httpd running, thats apache and it screwed me earlier today... later charles Ulwelling nope, not one instance of httpd seti@home is taking up about 27% of my CPU... would that greatly affect the performance?? seth -- Anthony Huereca http://m3000.1wh.com Press any key to continue and any other key to quit
RE: [newbie] slow Linux
It would be really easy to see if seti@home is the problem... just don't run it, and see if your speed improves. If it does then you probably have the priority on seti bumped up above lowest, if your speed doesn't improve then its not seti that is the culprit. later, Charles Ulwelling -Original Message- From: Anthony Huereca [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, March 27, 2000 1:39 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] slow Linux At the moment SETI@Home is taking 97% of my CPU (PII 450), and I'm having no problems with speed at all. Charles Ulwelling wrote: Check to see if you have a bunch of instances of httpd running, thats apache and it screwed me earlier today... later charles Ulwelling nope, not one instance of httpd seti@home is taking up about 27% of my CPU... would that greatly affect the performance?? seth -- Anthony Huereca http://m3000.1wh.com Press any key to continue and any other key to quit
RE: [newbie] slow Linux
Check to see if you have a bunch of instances of httpd running, thats apache and it screwed me earlier today... later charles Ulwelling -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of HAL 9000 Sent: Sunday, March 26, 2000 8:19 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] slow Linux hello all.. i just installed Mandrake and i used a larger swap partition. now its acting a bit laggy. i have SETI@Home running, but it has never acted the way it is now. i can watch the windows maximizing and iconifying aand its a bit "jumpy when that happens. any ideas? thanks seth
Re: [newbie] slow Linux
Charles Ulwelling wrote: Check to see if you have a bunch of instances of httpd running, thats apache and it screwed me earlier today... later charles Ulwelling nope, not one instance of httpd seti@home is taking up about 27% of my CPU... would that greatly affect the performance?? seth
Re: [newbie] slow Linux
"HAL" == HAL 9000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [snip] HAL nope, not one instance of httpd seti@home is taking up HAL about 27% of my CPU... would that greatly affect the HAL performance?? Hello, HAL. Yes. (Why is _HAL_ running seti@home, anyway ? ;-) ) -- Mike Fieschko, West Orange, NJ, USA X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1.8 XEmacs and random-sig.el Kernel 2.2.15-0.17mdk http://www.viconet.com/fieschko/home.htm Mar 27 St John Damascene "A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it." - [G.K. Chesterton, in Everlasting Man, 1925]
Re: [newbie] slow Linux
Uhhm... I'd say there's something wrong there... First of all, let me state that seti@home, even if it consumes all available CPU, isn't neccessarily a drag on the system. I run 2 seti@homes myself on a dual celeron (because one wouldn't grab all available CPU-time since it's not written multithreaded) and I don't even feel it. That's because seti plays nice to other apps. However, if you have a slow computer, it might tie up the processor too much, giving you a somewhat sluggish response. So in fact it depends on what computer you're using. But... The stuff that worries me is: "seti@home is taking up about 27% of my CPU"... Seti takes all the CPU it can get, meaning that there's only 27% free for seti to grab. Where's the other 73% going into? I think _that_ should be your main concern, and not the seti@home app. If you can eliminate something in the 73% CPU-consumption slice, drastically cutting that one down, and your PC is still slow, try loosing seti@home. ps: to make sure seti plays as nice as possible to other apps, start it with the "-nice 19" option. The highter the number of "niceness", the nicer it'll play to other apps. "Niceness" can range from -20 (maximum priority) to 19 (real nice to other apps). On Mar 27 Mike Fieschko wrote: "HAL" == HAL 9000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [snip] HAL nope, not one instance of httpd seti@home is taking up HAL about 27% of my CPU... would that greatly affect the HAL performance?? Hello, HAL. Yes. (Why is _HAL_ running seti@home, anyway ? ;-) ) -- Rial Juanhttp://nighty.ulyssis.org e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Belgiumtel:(++32) 89/856533 ulyssis system admininstrator http://www.ulyssis.org The little critters in nature; they don't know they're ugly. That's very funny... A fly marying a bumble-bee... Sign the petition at http://www.libranet.com/petition.html Help bring us more Linux Drivers
