From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1II43G-0007QS-A0 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 06 Aug 2007 14:59:22 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l76EvAW9014495; Mon, 6 Aug 2007 14:57:10 GMT Received: from vms046pub.verizon.net (vms046pub.verizon.net [206.46.252.46]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l76EneSm004092 for ; Mon, 6 Aug 2007 14:49:41 GMT Received: from [192.168.0.11] ([71.255.112.167]) by vms046.mailsrvcs.net (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-6.01 (built Apr 3 2006)) with ESMTPA id <0JMC00HLJX6R3130@vms046.mailsrvcs.net> for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Mon, 06 Aug 2007 09:49:40 -0500 (CDT) Date: Mon, 06 Aug 2007 10:49:39 -0400 From: sean Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Excessive processor usage In-reply-to: <200708061555.35355.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Message-id: <46B73503.6020405@verizon.net> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit References: <46B70B09.7010909@verizon.net> <46B70C70.5070600@linuxant.fr> <46B71A3F.9050309@verizon.net> <200708061555.35355.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de> User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.4 (X11/20070622) X-Archives-Salt: cae70e45-1d9a-41c4-9d97-75f3b89f6cc4 X-Archives-Hash: 95eafecaf6fe941f3832720b2d3561b7 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > On Montag, 6. August 2007, sean wrote: >> Xav' wrote: >>> So how do you know there is an excessive processor usage ? Could you >>> describe more precisely what you want to mean ? >> Have gkrellm2 monitoring CPU usage and often for varied lengths of time >> will see a long and increased processor usage, this usually occurs on CPU1. >> Things get a bit sluggish when this happens. This is a recent problem. > > I suspect IO. Disk IO makes everything slow. Especially if swap is involved. Thanks Volker, I will have to look this one over carefully. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list