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