I suspect KDE/xorg to be a culprit with nvidia s drivers and firefox.
I saw quite a few people with issues, very little that solved it.
Some that I thought helped, but hasn't.
I do not have Beagle installed, but after looking at it, may do that
for my home server. Like i said, these are basically base installs,
one has been up for ~ a week, the other longer, most updates have been
done. I know my home system has a notification of an update that I
haven't done yet, doing the update now. Other repositories to nvidia
(installs itself) and my home PC has videolan.
I haven't really done any troubleshooting on my home PC, as I have
only been using it for a few days a little.
When I say light load, I mean what should be a light load. Computer
at home does not have flash, and uses noscript. This is my home
system that is not in use, and using blank screen saver.
top - 11:28:46 up 13:59, 6 users, load average: 0.01, 0.03, 0.00
Tasks: 120 total, 2 running, 118 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu(s): 2.0%us, 1.3%sy, 0.0%ni, 95.7%id, 0.7%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.3%si, 0.0%st
Mem: 1021568k total, 996764k used, 24804k free, 77632k buffers
Swap: 2104472k total, 8k used, 2104464k free, 301540k cached
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
3203 cjne 20 0 534m 283m 32m S 4.7 28.4 47:52.93 firefox
3229 cjne 20 0 155m 5076 3904 S 1.7 0.5 12:25.01 pulseaudio
2259 root 20 0 249m 126m 8244 S 0.3 12.7 2:35.61 Xorg
3137 cjne 20 0 156m 37m 16m S 0.3 3.7 1:10.88 kwin
1 root 20 0 1008 360 308 S 0.0 0.0 0:01.28 init
2 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kthreadd
3 root RT -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 migration/0
4 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.22 ksoftirqd/0
5 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:01.72 events/0
6 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 khelper
7 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kintegrityd/0
8 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.08 kblockd/0
9 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kacpid
10 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kacpi_notify
11 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 cqueue
12 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.02 kseriod
13 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kondemand/0
The moment I do things with a web browser xorg jumps up(and as
expected to some extent so does the browser)
Thanks again
- Cody
On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 11:23 AM, Heinz Diehl
On 22.05.2009, Cody Nelson wrote:
Web surfing brings the system to a crawl! I see Xorg and firefox (or opera) seam to be eating the cpu time.
This is often related to Flash. Did you check this out? Do you have Beagle installed?
I can't even scroll up down, but the whole system is suffering under this light load.
Could you provide some numbers (vstat, sysstat, top...)?
There are a few things which comes to my mind: preempt kernel, filesystem tweaking (noatime, data=writeback, nobarrier etc.), vm tweaking via sysctl.conf, faster harddisks. more memory...
In my workingplace, I'm using an old P4 1.8 GHz with 512MB RAM and a 5400rpm harddisk, together with Gnome 2.26 on opensuse 11.0 without any problems.
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