still slow, but now I have stats, 5 min after boot: 48mb ram, 44mb used, 1.5 mb free, 128mb swap, 16mb swap used, 104mb swap free, 59 processes, 3 processes using .4 to 3% of system 2 hours after boot: 44mb used, 1.5 mb free, 60mb used, 60 mb free, 55 processes, same sys usage constant disk thrashing, 2 min to bring kpath(freecell) to the screen no programs running on desktop except sys guard note: is it possible that a cron is defragging the disk (you know, the great linux filesystem that does not need defragging, but no one explains). this might cause oscillation between the 4mb of free ram vs the swap. On Sunday 16 February 2003 18:50, Jeric wrote:
On Sun, 2003-02-16 at 18:55, John Sowden wrote:
My system seems to slow down after an hour of so. 30-40 sec to load kpat (freecell), etc. Is there a way to check to see if my swap file is working properly and being utilized adequately?
"free" shows swap/memory stats I don't know what might be causing the slow down. Maybe your priority for swap is too low? you can check it by "more /proc/swaps" or in your /etc/fstab file. The default for 8.1 is: /dev/hda2 swap swap pri=42 0 0
KDE system guard, Gnome system monitor, or top; might help show you some on goings as well.
I want to get tar (it's not on my install-go figure) from the suse 8.0 cds, but the install program can not find it. It is looking at a database, not the cd, I believe.
If you are using suse 8.1, GNU tar is under package name "tar". Did you run a search for it via YaST?
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