Problems with RH7.3 system performance

[Myles Green]

Mozilla and KDE look like they're chewing up large chunk of that, are 
you surfing multimedia intensive sites at the time?

On Wednesday 09 October 2002 05:37, James McDonald wrote:
> Umm guys,
>
> I am running an AMD 1.3GHz with 760 MB RAM.... I am thinking that my
> performance is pretty poor.... this is the out put from top
>
> Is X supposed to use 284M ( I have turned Xft on )?
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> 110 processes: 103 sleeping, 6 running, 1 zombie, 0 stopped
> CPU states:  6.9% user,  5.7% system,  0.1% nice, 87.1% idle
> Mem:   742488K av,  705840K used,   36648K free,       0K shrd,  
> 39696K buff Swap: 1502068K av,    7880K used, 1494188K free          
>        342404K cached
>
>   PID USER     PRI  NI  SIZE  RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM   TIME COMMAND
> 22888 james     19   0 41404  40M 22112 R     3.5  5.5   4:56
> mozilla-bin 22896 james      9   0 41404  40M 22112 S     0.0  5.5  
> 0:00 mozilla-bin 22897 james      9   0 41404  40M 22112 S     0.0 
> 5.5   0:04 mozilla-bin 22898 james      9   0 41404  40M 22112 S    
> 0.0  5.5   0:00 mozilla-bin 22899 james      9   0 41404  40M 22112 S
>     0.0  5.5   0:02 mozilla-bin 22900 james      9   0 41404  40M
> 22112 S     0.0  5.5   0:00 mozilla-bin 5606 root      13   0  284M 
> 28M  7488 R     1.5  3.8  28:13 X 5702 james      9   0 20988  20M
> 11420 S     0.1  2.7   6:42 kdeinit 29331 james      9   0 18700  18M
> 14496 S     0.1  2.5   0:17 kmail 5700 james      9   0 13172  12M
> 11452 S     0.0  1.7   1:10 kdeinit 31097 james      9   0 12832  12M
> 10432 S     0.0  1.6   3:29 kdeinit 22693 james     10   0 12288  11M
> 10048 R     0.5  1.6   0:04 kdeinit 31095 james      9   0 11872  11M
> 10076 S     0.0  1.5   1:47 kdeinit 31552 james     19  19 11324  11M
>  7672 R N   0.3  1.5  10:12 kpolygon.kss 5707 james      9   0 11636 
> 11M  9624 S     0.1  1.5   4:21 kdeinit 5698 james      9   0 11276 
> 10M  9580 S     0.0  1.4   0:20 kdeinit 15637 james      9   0 11268 
> 10M  9848 S     0.0  1.4   0:00 kdeinit 5694 james      9   0 10740 
> 10M  9496 S     0.0  1.3   0:01 kdeinit 31089 james      9   0 10404
> 9876  9148 S     0.0  1.3   0:00 kdeinit 31093 james      9   0 10356
> 9872  8804 S     0.0  1.3   0:00 kdeinit 5709 james      9   0  9960
> 9600  8880 S     0.0  1.2   0:00 kdeinit 5711 james      9   0 10000
> 9536  8456 S     0.0  1.2   0:01 korgac 31102 james      9   0  9860
> 9380  8536 S     0.0  1.2   0:45 kdeinit 1069 xfs        9   0 11076
> 9328  2140 S     0.0  1.2   1:56 xfs 31105 james      8   0  9692
> 9172  8168 S     0.0  1.2   0:00 kdeinit 31106 james      9   0  9564
> 9092  8064 S     0.0  1.2   0:00 korgac 5675 james      9   0  9416
> 9056  8348 S     0.0  1.2  11:52 kdeinit 31006 james     12   0  8904
> 8904  1376 S     1.1  1.1  15:41 Xvnc 5697 james      9   0  9160
> 8792  8108 S     0.0  1.1   0:01 kdeinit 29831 james      9   0  9204
> 8680  8024 S     0.0  1.1   0:00 kdeinit 31551 james      9   0  8608
> 8608  7324 S     0.0  1.1   0:00 kdesktop_lock 31070 james      9   0
>  9080 8592  8020 S     0.0  1.1  15:49 kdeinit

-- 
Myles Green
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zeus  Friday Oct 11 2002 09:40:00 MDT
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