[plug] System slowdown help

[Steege, Phil E]

Tony,

Your last comment got me thinking about something.  One difference with this
install and my last one was that before I used static IP addresses on all
four machines on my network.  On this rebuild I chose DHCP because I just
added another old P100 machine running the Smoothwall firewall product, and
wanted to give DHCP a try on one machine.
So I did not touch the /etc/hosts file this time.  Usually I would create a
common hosts file for all my PC's and use rdist to distribute it whenever
there were changes.
So for my machine, called 'phil' should I enter the following:

127.0.0.1	localhost	phil.myhouse.com


-----Original Message-----
From: Tony Clark [mailto:tclark at telia.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, September 03, 2002 1:47 PM
To: plug at plug.linux.org.au
Subject: Re: [plug] System slowdown help


I've seen something like this in Gentoo linux.  No promises but try adding 
your machine name to /etc/hosts like this

127.0.0.1       localhost your.host.name

tony

On Tuesday 03 September 2002 19.17, Steege, Phil E wrote:
> 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
>
> Make lunch, not war.
>
>
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