[plug] System slowdown help

[Steege, Phil E]

My video card is a GeForce3 TI200 64MB card and I installed the latest linux
drivers from the Nvidia website.  I don't remember the Nvidia driver version
numbers.  I am not sure what you mean by "Does typing work fine" ?  If you
mean typing inside the terminal window, that does work fine.  There are no
delays in the character response when I type in the terminal windows.

What also happens is that I will click on an application (such as Mozilla or
Konqueror) to start and KDE shows a 'mini' flashing icon and then I wait for
a long time before the app starts, IF it starts at all.
Things eventually start, but they just seem to take forever.  I don't
remember this much delay on redhat 7.2.

I use Gkrellm to monitor processes and noticed that after I login I see up
to 100+ processes running.  Is that excessive for a X session?
I turned a few off, such as wwwoffle but that made no difference.
I plan to use tcpdump to monitor network traffic to see if there are
excessive amounts of activity there also.

Phil


-----Original Message-----
From: John Knight [mailto:anarchist_tomato at hotmail.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, September 03, 2002 1:03 PM
To: plug at plug.linux.org.au
Subject: Re: [plug] System slowdown help


Hmmm...... what's your video card and what drivers are you using? Does 
typing work fine out of X?

>I am running redhat 7.3 on a new installation.
>I have a problem where at certain random times the system seems to slow
>down
>significantly.  I am running a KDE 3 desktop.
>Some of the symptoms are that when I type 'su -' there is a long delay
>before the password prompt returns (by long delay, I mean 10-15 seconds).
>When I jump out to a virtual terminal (Ctrl-Alt-F1) the same delay is seen.
>
>I used 'top' to monitor processes, with a 1 second refresh, and do not 
>see anything 'hogging' excessive CPU or MEM usage.
>
>Does anyone have any ideas on how I can trap the culprit that slowing 
>my system down?
>
>Phil




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