Re: [Cooker] weird slowdowns with Cooker today

2003-08-17 Thread lamikr_mdk
Not directly connected, it's connected through a firewalled router. I doubt that's the answer, because the system response is fine all the time except when there's network traffic *to this system*. Look following Linux kernel mailing list summary from the kerneltraffic.org: Mika

Re: [Cooker] weird slowdowns with Cooker today

2003-08-16 Thread Adam Williamson
On Sat, 2003-08-16 at 02:59, Ron Stodden wrote: Yes, I know this problem. You can avoid rebooting by: 1. Check that your swapfile is not full. If it is, generate a much bigger one. My swapfile is 1.5GB. Not likely to be the problem. Tip: Use a console (Ctrl+Alt+F2), log in as root,

Re: [Cooker] weird slowdowns with Cooker today

2003-08-16 Thread Adam Williamson
On Sat, 2003-08-16 at 06:52, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Friday August 15 2003 08:08 pm, Adam Williamson wrote: K, so to reply to myself again, I realised I was once more being silly, and drew the obvious link between the two, and yes, the problem is heavy network usage. Basically, downloading a

Re: [Cooker] weird slowdowns with Cooker today

2003-08-16 Thread Adam Williamson
On Sat, 2003-08-16 at 04:35, Thomas Backlund wrote: Viestissä Lauantai 16 Elokuu 2003 03:50, Adam Williamson kirjoitti: I've just started noticing this since I came in from work, about 10:30pm. Since then I've updated to kernel 0.5mdk and a few other minor updates (lm_sensors 2.8.0 and a

Re: [Cooker] weird slowdowns with Cooker today

2003-08-16 Thread Thomas Backlund
Viestissä Lauantai 16 Elokuu 2003 13:19, Adam Williamson kirjoitti: On Sat, 2003-08-16 at 04:35, Thomas Backlund wrote: Viestissä Lauantai 16 Elokuu 2003 03:50, Adam Williamson kirjoitti: I've just started noticing this since I came in from work, about 10:30pm. Since then I've updated to

Re: [Cooker] weird slowdowns with Cooker today

2003-08-16 Thread Adam Williamson
On Sat, 2003-08-16 at 12:03, Thomas Backlund wrote: Viestissä Lauantai 16 Elokuu 2003 13:19, Adam Williamson kirjoitti: On Sat, 2003-08-16 at 04:35, Thomas Backlund wrote: Viestissä Lauantai 16 Elokuu 2003 03:50, Adam Williamson kirjoitti: I've just started noticing this since I came in

Re: [Cooker] weird slowdowns with Cooker today

2003-08-16 Thread Adam Williamson
On Sat, 2003-08-16 at 12:03, Thomas Backlund wrote: No, it's nothing to do with DMA or IO. hdparm is the very first thing I check in such cases. The reason I asked was because Stefan did see his nForce2 system drop out of dma under heavy load, and it newer recovered correctly, the

Re: [Cooker] weird slowdowns with Cooker today

2003-08-16 Thread Adam Williamson
On Sat, 2003-08-16 at 01:50, Adam Williamson wrote: I've just started noticing this since I came in from work, about 10:30pm. Since then I've updated to kernel 0.5mdk and a few other minor updates (lm_sensors 2.8.0 and a couple of other small things). Certain things, between which I can't find

Re: [Cooker] weird slowdowns with Cooker today

2003-08-16 Thread Buchan Milne
On Sat, 16 Aug 2003, Adam Williamson wrote: OK, more info, this is a little weird...I've booted with kernel-multimedia to try that, and the problem is still there, but it's not as *bad* - the system response is still sluggish under file downloads, but not *as* sluggish as with the main

Re: [Cooker] weird slowdowns with Cooker today

2003-08-16 Thread Ron Stodden
Adam Williamson wrote: On Sat, 2003-08-16 at 02:59, Ron Stodden wrote: Yes, I know this problem. You can avoid rebooting by: 1. Check that your swapfile is not full. If it is, generate a much bigger one. My swapfile is 1.5GB. Not likely to be the problem.

Re: [Cooker] weird slowdowns with Cooker today

2003-08-16 Thread Ken Thompson
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Re: [Cooker] weird slowdowns with Cooker today

2003-08-16 Thread Adam Williamson
On Sat, 2003-08-16 at 14:29, Buchan Milne wrote: On Sat, 16 Aug 2003, Adam Williamson wrote: OK, more info, this is a little weird...I've booted with kernel-multimedia to try that, and the problem is still there, but it's not as *bad* - the system response is still sluggish under file

Re: [Cooker] weird slowdowns with Cooker today

2003-08-16 Thread Bjarne Thomsen
I am not sure if this is relevant for your case. I assembled a PC based on the MSI-6570 K7N2 Delta (Nforce2) MB with an Athlon XP (Barton) CPU. The first I noticed was that it would now and then freeze during e2fsck on large file systems. I did an extensive memory test without finding any faults,

Re: [Cooker] weird slowdowns with Cooker today

2003-08-16 Thread Adam Williamson
On Sun, 2003-08-17 at 00:02, Bjarne Thomsen wrote: I am not sure if this is relevant for your case. Doesn't look at all relevant, no, as this is a problem that has only manifested itself recently and is different in character from that one. But thanks for the info... -- adamw

[Cooker] weird slowdowns with Cooker today

2003-08-15 Thread Adam Williamson
I've just started noticing this since I came in from work, about 10:30pm. Since then I've updated to kernel 0.5mdk and a few other minor updates (lm_sensors 2.8.0 and a couple of other small things). Certain things, between which I can't find much of a link, seem to slow the system down

Re: [Cooker] weird slowdowns with Cooker today

2003-08-15 Thread Adam Williamson
On Sat, 2003-08-16 at 01:50, Adam Williamson wrote: I've just started noticing this since I came in from work, about 10:30pm. Since then I've updated to kernel 0.5mdk and a few other minor updates (lm_sensors 2.8.0 and a couple of other small things). Certain things, between which I can't find

Re: [Cooker] weird slowdowns with Cooker today

2003-08-15 Thread Ron Stodden
Yes, I know this problem. You can avoid rebooting by: 1. Check that your swapfile is not full. If it is, generate a much bigger one. Tip: Use a console (Ctrl+Alt+F2), log in as root, and run top. Swapfile stats are at the top. This will then be there whenever you want it. whether KDE

Re: [Cooker] weird slowdowns with Cooker today

2003-08-15 Thread Thomas Backlund
Viestissä Lauantai 16 Elokuu 2003 03:50, Adam Williamson kirjoitti: I've just started noticing this since I came in from work, about 10:30pm. Since then I've updated to kernel 0.5mdk and a few other minor updates (lm_sensors 2.8.0 and a couple of other small things). Certain things, between

Re: [Cooker] weird slowdowns with Cooker today

2003-08-15 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Friday August 15 2003 08:08 pm, Adam Williamson wrote: K, so to reply to myself again, I realised I was once more being silly, and drew the obvious link between the two, and yes, the problem is heavy network usage. Basically, downloading a file from the internet will trigger it; do it any