fc8 slow, here is results from top

[Robin Laing]

Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-03-27 at 07:15 -0700, Paula J. Lindsay wrote:
>> PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  
>> COMMAND                                                        
>>     1 root      20   0  2112  588  508 S    0  0.0   0:02.94 
>> init                                                           
>>     2 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 
>> kthreadd                                                       
> [...]
> 
> If you leave out the first 5 lines of 'top' (before the list of
> processes) you're leaving out a lot of important info, such as the
> system load average, memory occupancy, proportion of time spent in
> user/system state etc. It's important to include this so we can see
> what's happening.
> 
> poc
> 

This stuff is important

This line show how long my system is up and that is is being loaded.  I 
am doing some image processing on one of the cores as I took this.

top - 11:56:41 up 8 days,  2:51,  4 users,  load average: 3.00, 3.02, 3.02

This shows the number of processes and some basic details.

Tasks: 184 total,   5 running, 179 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
Cpu(s):  8.3%us, 43.2%sy, 48.3%ni,  0.0%id,  0.0%wa,  0.2%hi,  0.0%si, 
0.0%st

This is important when things start being bogged down.  At home this 
weekend, my system seemed frozen due to the amount of memory being used. 
  I had used all the ram and almost all the swap.  My HDD light was on 
solid.  Before I added the extra 4gig of ram a few weeks ago, my work 
machine was using upto 7gig of swap from time to time.

Mem:   8201104k total,  8107008k used,    94096k free,   487656k buffers
Swap:  8385888k total,        0k used,  8385888k free,  4414100k cached


To get more information about top, type in:
    man top


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Robin Laing