From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 6 0:21: 0 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from web3206.mail.yahoo.com (web3206.mail.yahoo.com [204.71.202.203]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9C89637BF58 for ; Tue, 6 Jun 2000 00:20:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sky_tracker@yahoo.com) Message-ID: <20000606072054.5689.qmail@web3206.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [216.191.74.115] by web3206.mail.yahoo.com; Tue, 06 Jun 2000 00:20:54 PDT Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2000 00:20:54 -0700 (PDT) From: Dave Banning Subject: Re: X screen has become very slow To: Christoph Sold Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Thanks for your reply. I tried top - your right - X is using like 25 Meg! Process time being eaten is minimal > > My system version 3.4 with 3.3.6 (X) using KDE > > All of a sudden all of X is very slow - even using > "ls" > > the screen has a hard time keeping up. > > > > Any idea what would cause this? > > No. Some hints, though: > Use top to locate the process eating up your > processing time. It will be > located -surprise-near the top. > If you're doing graphics, use sensible graphics > modes: 8bit color depth is 8 bit good enough for photos? > causes gimp to be a real PITA, what's PITA? >especially with > slower CPUs. > systat displays statistics similiar to top. Check if > you got enough real > RAM in your box. > df may check for filled up disc slices. Any disk I'm at 76% on /usr and 56% on / > usage above 95% will > slow down your machine considerably. > As always, man is your friend. ===== Every man has his price. Mine is $3.95 __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Photos -- now, 100 FREE prints! http://photos.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message