Date: 20 Apr 2003 09:56:13 -0400 From: Jeffrey Racine <jracine@maxwell.syr.edu> To: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Subject: System degradation requiring rebooting every day... Message-ID: <1050846972.28129.10.camel@x1-6-00-b0-d0-c2-67-0e.twcny.rr.com>
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Hi. The following problem appears on my system with unsettling regularity: upon boot, everything is `smooth'... quick response, smooth cursor movement etc. However, after being up for a while (e.g. less than 12 hours) the system performance has so degraded as to require rebooting. By this I mean that the cursor is so `jumpy' as to make the mouse unusable, and the processor is pegged at 30% when the system ought to be idle. The system is idle (evolution only running) and the load average is 2-3, while I also notice that libgtop_server is consuming a significant amount of overhead when the system is truly idle if this helps. I include output from top below if that helps. I am running 5.0 CURRENT, Gnome 2, have kept current with ports on a daily basis. This problem has existed for over three weeks through constant upgrades of ports and current. The system is a Dell OptiPlex GX110, i810 chipset, 512 MB Ram. Thanks for any advice! Here is my system info. uname -a FreeBSD x1-6-00-b0-d0-c2-67-0e.twcny.rr.com 5.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT #0: Fri Apr 18 06:24:01 EDT 2003 root@x1-6-00-b0-d0-c2-67-0e.twcny.rr.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 env SSH_AGENT_PID=539 SHELL=/usr/local/bin/bash TERM=xterm WINDOWID=18874405 OLDPWD=/home/jracine USER=jracine LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/pgplot SSH_AUTH_SOCK=/tmp/ssh-f6pu0sMf/agent.532 USERNAME=jracine SESSION_MANAGER=local/x1-6-00-b0-d0-c2-67-0e.twcny.rr.com:/tmp/.ICE-unix/532 FTP_PASSIVE_MODE=YES MAIL=/var/mail/jracine PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/home/jracine/bin:.:./:/home/jracine/bin:/home/jracine/C/nn/gcc:/home/jracine/C/n_alpha/gcc::.:./: BLOCKSIZE=K PWD=/root LANG=en_US.ISO_8859-1 GDM_LANG=en_US.ISO_8859-1 LAMRSH=ssh -x TZ=EST5EDT PS1=[\u]\w/ GDMSESSION=Gnome SHLVL=2 HOME=/root TEXEDIT=emacs +%d %s GNOME_DESKTOP_SESSION_ID=Default PGPLOT_DIR=/usr/local/pgplot/ BASH_ENV=/root/.bashrc LOGNAME=jracine DISPLAY=:0.0 XAUTHORITY=/home/jracine/.Xauthority COLORTERM=gnome-terminal _=/usr/bin/env top last pid: 28081; load averages: 2.76, 2.63, 2.34 up 0+15:40:22 09:43:01 50 processes: 3 running, 47 sleeping Mem: 104M Active, 261M Inact, 74M Wired, 14M Cache, 60M Buf, 41M Free Swap: 1006M Total, 1006M Free PID USERNAME PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE TIME WCPU CPU COMMAND 588 jracine -8 0 2112K 872K piperd 153:06 26.61% 26.61% libgtop_serve 481 root 97 0 85264K 82536K RUN 11:55 0.63% 0.63% XFree86 566 jracine 97 0 17812K 12008K RUN 1:17 0.44% 0.44% gnome-termina 585 jracine 96 0 14380K 9920K select 4:01 0.05% 0.05% multiload-app 564 jracine 96 0 16956K 12868K select 8:56 0.00% 0.00% gnome-panel 449 root 96 0 1188K 624K select 3:40 0.00% 0.00% moused 560 jracine 96 0 11620K 8272K select 1:41 0.00% 0.00% metacity 562 jracine 96 0 18188K 13148K select 1:20 0.00% 0.00% nautilus 587 jracine 96 0 13400K 8628K select 0:51 0.00% 0.00% mixer_applet2 642 jracine 96 0 21424K 9524K select 0:48 0.00% 0.00% wombat 196 root 96 0 1184K 624K select 0:44 0.00% 0.00% dhclient 558 jracine 96 0 7132K 4116K select 0:35 0.00% 0.00% gnome-smproxy 664 jracine 96 0 18928K 8672K select 0:13 0.00% 0.00% evolution-ala 555 jracine 96 0 3152K 2196K select 0:08 0.00% 0.00% xscreensaver 398 root 96 0 3448K 1976K select 0:07 0.00% 0.00% sendmail 579 jracine 96 0 14568K 10608K select 0:04 0.00% 0.00% stickynotes_a 581 jracine 96 0 14600K 9900K select 0:04 0.00% 0.00% gweather-appl 542 jracine 96 0 12224K 10284K select 0:03 0.00% 0.00% gconfd-2 -- Professor J. S. Racine Phone: (315) 443-1630 Department of Economics FAX: (315) 443-1081 Syracuse University e-mail: jracine@maxwell.syr.edu Syracuse, NY, USA 13244-1020 http://www.maxwell.syr.edu/econ/faculty/jeffrey_racine.htm `The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance.'
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