Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2007 13:46:56 +0800 From: Erich Dollansky <oceanare@pacific.net.sg> To: Ganbold <ganbold@micom.mng.net> Cc: "freebsd-current@freebsd.org" <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: computer becomes slow when compiling something Message-ID: <46D26550.3030603@pacific.net.sg> In-Reply-To: <46D25630.1060506@micom.mng.net> References: <20070827043556.496A945048@ptavv.es.net> <46D25630.1060506@micom.mng.net>
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Hi, Ganbold wrote: > Kevin Oberman wrote: >>> Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2007 12:25:38 +0800 >>> From: Ganbold <ganbold@micom.mng.net> >>> Sender: owner-freebsd-current@freebsd.org >>> >>> my computer becomes very slow. >>> >>> top shows while compiling wine: >>> >>> last pid: 38660; load averages: 3.10, 2.24, >>> 1.33 >>> up 3+02:07:05 12:11:38 >>> 106 processes: 3 running, 102 sleeping, 1 zombie >>> CPU states: 90.2% user, 0.0% nice, 9.8% system, 0.0% interrupt, >>> 0.0% idle >>> Mem: 704M Active, 63M Inact, 168M Wired, 39M Cache, 111M Buf, 21M Free >>> Swap: 2048M Total, 195M Used, 1853M Free, 9% Inuse >>> >>> PID USERNAME THR PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE TIME WCPU >>> COMMAND >>> 902 tsgan 1 96 0 147M 134M RUN 929:41 3.96% Xorg You have an uuptime of some three days but Xorg took already 929 minutes of CPU time? Also, we a load average of three and more while 0% idle time, every machine must be slow. It also indicates that swapping is not the problem as swapping should not affect the CPU. As long as the load average is this high, the machine will feel slow. This is normal. You might find somebody who knows why Xorg does this strange thing. Erich
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