:: On Mon, 31 Jul 2000 21:19:29 -0700, kmself@ix.netcom.com said: >> I was wondering if anyone else notices this when installing or >> removing packages: the disk is heavily used (like when the cron >> scripts are triggered in the morning) for some time (depending on >> the number and size of the packages), >> [ ... ]
> First, you don't have scads of RAM for running Gnome -- I tend to avoid > it with a slower box (PII 180) and more RAM (96MB), and don't > particularly care for it at work (PIII-450/128). Well... I'm alredy soused to it... :-) It's not too slow (if I don't try to run too many Gnome applictions) > Above > all that, IDE performance tends to suck a whole lot more CPU juice than > SCSI does (I run SCSI on two of three disks). Oh, well... But SCSI disks are absolutely expensive... :-( Anyway, I don't see too much CPU work when the disk is being heavily used... (Not after I managed to make UDMA66 work) Maybe this s a swap problem... > You might want to launch > a couple of system monitoring tools. My preferences are wmmon and asmon > under WindowMaker, though top will give some raw measures. Not sure > what you can turn to for disk I/O and realtime swap usage. Anyone? > Hmmm... xosview is butt ugly but damned useful, it might be helpful > also. Thank you. I'll install xosview later. J. -- Jeronimo Pellegrini Institute of Computing - Unicamp - Brazil http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~jeronimo mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
