On April 7, 2004 05:03 pm, Ken Gilmour wrote: > On Wed, 7 Apr 2004 14:07:13 -0700, Leo Spalteholz wrote: > <snip> > > >It's really annoying.. Could this be a misbehaving driver? How would I > >find out? > > What is the output of "ps -uagx"? Are there any defunct processes there?
A whole crapload of processes :). Most of them Sleeping. root 2 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SWN Apr06 0:00 [ksoftirqd/0] root 3 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW< Apr06 0:00 [events/0] root 4 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW< Apr06 0:00 [kblockd/0] root 5 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW Apr06 0:00 [pdflush] root 6 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW Apr06 0:03 [pdflush] root 7 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW Apr06 0:02 [kswapd0] root 8 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW< Apr06 0:00 [aio/0] root 9 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW Apr06 0:00 [kseriod] root 115 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW< Apr06 0:00 [reiserfs/0] root 218 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW Apr06 0:00 [khubd] those are the only ones with a state that is not just 'S'. I don't really know what you mean by "defunct processes". Cpu usage is 0% for every process except X which is 1.4%. Yet top still reports about 34% user. > > Also try these following commands: > > df -h > free > vmstat Looks fine to me. I don't really know what I'm looking for. Disk space is plentiful in the partitions I'm using and memory usage is fine too. Thanks, Leo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]