Re: What could be causing a slowdown across the board?
- From: Jolly Roger <jollyroger@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 18 May 2008 00:51:51 -0500
In article <1ih56y8.texzoy1x7io7zN%jamiekg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
jamiekg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Jamie Kahn Genet) wrote:
<billy@xxxxxxx> wrote:
Gregory Weston <uce@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
jamiekg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Jamie Kahn Genet) wrote:
I have enough HD space (little less that 100GB out of 500), CPU usage
is nowhere near maxed, memory usage is not maxed, drive activity is
nothing to write home about.
What's the output of the command "cd /var/vm; ls -l" in a terminal?
I'm curious how Jamie is measuring his system's resources usaage.
One convenient method, yet just as accurate as the command line tools,
because it can be clearly observed while a hang occurs, is a utility named
MenuMeters. Among other things, it can display memory paging as it occurs.
http://www.ragingmenace.com/software/menumeters/
I've tried that but prefer iStat Menus
<http://islayer.com/index.php?op=item&id=28> or just good old Activity
Monitor.
Total CPU usage has been as little as 15% when I've had these slowdowns.
As I said before memory usage and disk activity are also fairly low. The
couple dozen or so programs I run constantly are not CPU or RAM hogs,
except for BOINC - but that only runs after a few minutes inactivity so
cannot be blamed.
And pageouts aren't high when this is going on?
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