Date: Sat, 9 Oct 1999 11:25:29 -0400 (EDT) From: Jaime Kikpole <jaime@malkav.snowmoon.com> To: whitehat@home.com Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: total lag Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9910091115580.47551-100000@malkav.snowmoon.com> In-Reply-To: <37FED0DC.2A63CF6D@home.com>
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On Fri, 8 Oct 1999 whitehat@home.com wrote: > Now I have yet another obstacle. For some reason, KDE is INSANELY slow, > and so does every other WM i've tried. It takes 3 min for netscape to > load, and the machine is grinding like crazy...its working way to hard. > Will it help if I increase my Swap size? right now its 98 MB, and my RAM > is 48MB (so the swap file is rougly two times my RAM, as recommended). Sounds to me like your box is running out of space in RAM to do things, so its trying to swap lots of pages back and forth between swap and RAM. Increase your RAM to 64MB if you can. I run on that and don't have any problems. The problems that you describe remind me of my 486 with 20MB of RAM. For more info, switch to a virtual terminal (Alt-F2), login, and run top. Then, on another virtual terminal (Alt-F1) run X. While its loading (just after the grey screen shows up), hit Alt-Cntrl-F2 to get back to the screen with top on it. Watch the way your box uses the RAM available to it while different programs load. Then use Alt-F4 to get back to X and run some programs (Netscape, xmms, etc.) and switch back to top to see how that effects things. I'm pretty sure that you'll see lots of "In" and "Out" status messages, which indicates that pages of memory are being swapped to and from disk. > Or, mabye increase my root partition (which is currently set at 30MB). This shouldn't be relivant in any way to what you're describing. > Or, mabye its the fact that I didnt > make a /proc partition...here is my current system setup (might help > you) > > Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mount > > /dev/wd0s2a 29751 22932 4439 84% / > /dev/wd0s2e 595383 286406 261317 52% /usr > procfs 4 4 0 100% /proc > > Mabye I should create a /proc partition..for some reason FreeBSD > automaticly made that "procfs" entry, perhaps thats whats slowing my > whole system down. Any ideas? The process file system (procfs) is a virtual file system. Its not actually on the disk. Its just a file-system-like representation of what's going on in memory. I've had it on a K5 PR133 (Pentium Rating, 133MHz) with only 16MB of RAM. The only problem on that system was when I ran out of RAM. :) Good luck, Jaime To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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