Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2441 mails)

[Adam Vazquez Kb2Jpd <adamvaz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Anders Johansson wrote:

> On Friday 24 June 2005 09:24, Clayton wrote:
>  
>
> > Anyway, I'm finding that the new machine - with in theory should be
> > significantly faster than my old machine is in fact... slower than the
> > old machine.  I can't find out what's making it slower either.  I've
> > been monitoring my processes, and nothing out of the ordinary - that I
> > can see anyway.  But... my processor load sometimes pegs at 100% for
> > no apparent reason - X for example taking 100% for minutes at a
> > time.... but nothing is happening on screen... I'm not doing anything
> > either (reading a text file... nothing processor/GUI intensive).
> >
> > There are times when I simply cannot do anything at all until the OS
> > finishes whatever it is that's keeping it busy and returns control to
> > me.
> >
> > Any suggestions where I can look or what I can monitor to try and find
> > what it is that's making the system so slow?
> >    
>
> Do you use konqueror? I see from time to time konqueror go completely mad, I 
> think it has something to do with flash. When this happens, the CPU usage 
> hits 100%, but it shows in different places. Sometimes in X, sometimes as 
> "system" use. But invariably it goes away when I kill konqueror
>
>
>  
There is also that find and slocate routine that starts up after your 
machine is idling. It is busy finding all the text and making a search 
index.
control alt f1 logon root and killall slocate and killall find when you 
need to.

Adam