[SLE] opensuse 10.1 busy laptop harddrive!
Hello, I have installed opensuse 10.1 on an IBM T21 Thinkpad. Machine specs: Pentium 3 750 Mhz, 256 Mb RAM, Belkin PCMCIA Wireless Ethernet Adapter (based on the rt2500 chip set) basic thinkpad. Other than this problem, I am happy with the performance on this laptop, the problem however I cannot figure out. Any where from 7 to 10 times in a typical day this occurs, the hard driver activity light lights up because of disc activity and the system becomes unusable from 2 to about 5 minutes. I have no idea where to start to solve this problem, from another computer I logged into the laptop through webmin and twice I have looked at running processes during these freeze ups and see the X server taking about 80 percent of the cpu. Other than that , I see all other processes running below 1 percent of the cpu. Any assistance would be appreciated. John -- Registered Linux User 263680, get counted at http://counter.li.org -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com
John Pierce wrote:
Hello, I have installed opensuse 10.1 on an IBM T21 Thinkpad. Machine specs: Pentium 3 750 Mhz, 256 Mb RAM, Belkin PCMCIA Wireless Ethernet Adapter (based on the rt2500 chip set) basic thinkpad.
Based on experience I would say 256Mb is probably a little low memory-wise. It'll no doubt run fine, but could cause extensive swapping.
Other than this problem, I am happy with the performance on this laptop, the problem however I cannot figure out. Any where from 7 to 10 times in a typical day this occurs, the hard driver activity light lights up because of disc activity and the system becomes unusable from 2 to about 5 minutes.
Open a konsole and check what "top" says - which processes are running, what is the memory/swap situation. /Per Jessen, Zürich -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com
On Thursday 29 June 2006 04:01, Per Jessen wrote:
John Pierce wrote:
Hello, I have installed opensuse 10.1 on an IBM T21 Thinkpad. Machine specs: Pentium 3 750 Mhz, 256 Mb RAM, Belkin PCMCIA Wireless Ethernet Adapter (based on the rt2500 chip set) basic thinkpad.
Based on experience I would say 256Mb is probably a little low memory-wise. It'll no doubt run fine, but could cause extensive swapping.
Other than this problem, I am happy with the performance on this laptop, the problem however I cannot figure out. Any where from 7 to 10 times in a typical day this occurs, the hard driver activity light lights up because of disc activity and the system becomes unusable from 2 to about 5 minutes.
Open a konsole and check what "top" says - which processes are running, what is the memory/swap situation.
/Per Jessen, Zürich
My experience is that 128MB is too low but 256MB is usually adequate for email, browsing, gkrellm monitor, ssh to another machine, etc. My htop or top or even the kcontrolcenter's memory monitor shows that just over 128MB, about 130MB+/-, is used logged into KDE with the previously mentioned programs running. Got 10.1 installed with 128MB but it ran very slow and took forever due to constant swapping. Found another 128MB module that works in that laptop and it runs much better. /swap is 519MB. htop is a very nice alternative to top. Stan -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com
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