id field of top command?
by Dave Burns
I've got a server that is running slow (slow to log in, commands on
command line take way longer than usual). But the top command doesn't
say much (that I understand). The one interesting item is a 99.7%
value in the 'id' field at the top of the output. Reading man page and
googling has left me no wiser, unless it means 'idle'. Anyone know
what it stands for?
Nothing in the log to indicate being busy or having problems that
would slow it down.
mahalo,
Dave
My output:
top - 10:48:10 up 20:30, 2 users, load average: 0.01, 0.04, 0.01
Tasks: 98 total, 2 running, 96 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu(s): 0.0% us, 0.3% sy, 0.0% ni, 99.7% id, 0.0% wa, 0.0% hi, 0.0% si
Mem: 16509316k total, 15993912k used, 515404k free, 107280k buffers
Swap: 16779884k total, 0k used, 16779884k free, 15192476k cached
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
1 root 16 0 4876 588 496 S 0.0 0.0 0:02.09 init
2 root 34 19 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 ksoftirqd/0
3 root RT 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 watchdog/0
4 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.01 events/0
5 root 20 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 khelper
6 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kthread
10 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.03 kblockd/0
11 root 20 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kacpid
300 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 khubd
304 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kseriod
368 root 15 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.97 pdflush
369 root 15 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:04.72 pdflush
370 root 15 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:01.38 kswapd0
371 root 20 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 aio/0
517 root 11 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kpsmoused
534 root 11 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 scsi_eh_0
555 root 11 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 scsi_eh_1
16 years
Rescue Disk in Fc9 ??
by Bill Case
Hi;
I am sitting here watching bittorrent download Fedora-9-x86_64-CDs to my
"backup" partition of a hard disk. I intend to install from there to my
Linux partitions. When I did it this way for Fedora 8 (DVD), there was
a rescue disk that I used for installation. I don't see a rescue disk
for F9.
Is CD1 equal to the boot/rescue disk and do I burn that?
Or is there an additional download? If so, where is it?
(I have looked) I am not yet desperate; I still have 4 hours to go; but
I am curious.
I looked through the Release Notes and the Installation notes. There is
no reassurance that for hard drive installation the CD and DVD isos are
equivalent and no clear statement on what to burn and use for starting
installation process.
--
Regards Bill
16 years
upgrade F8 -> F9 kills settings manager on XFCE
by Globe Trotter
Hi,
I have tried upgrading from F8 -> F9 using both the CDs provided and yum separately on my trusty Thinkpad T61. Both cases went fine without much complaints, but what came up does not have a working settings manager (I click and nothing ever happens) for the XFCE panel. I tried doing this after wiping everything out so that some weird setting of mine was not the issue, but to no avail. Did anyone else have this issue?
Installing FC9 and then doing a yum groupinstall 'XFCE' however does not cause this problem. So, I guess one solution which I wonder about and have not tried is: should I yum groupremove 'XFCE' before the upgrade and then bring it back after upgrade and see what happens? Would that work? I guess my worry is that I will end up with a non-working system and will need to install from scratch.
best,
trotter
16 years
Mounting an NFS volume
by Francois
Hi,
I installed Fedora 9 on my laptop, and I got lots of problem with KDE. So
for the first time, I switched to Gnome, and it works like a charm. I'm
discovering it, and I have lots of questions about it, but with tests and
time, it will be ok I guess.
My pb is with NFS.
I have setted up the laptop to get its IP using DHCP. It works wireless
(wifi).
My second computer (main) is connected to the router with a fixed IP
address, and using cable.
I run an NFS server on both computers to be able to mount one from the
other. When I used a fixed IP address on my laptop, it worked fine. But
now I use DHCP, I can't mount an NFS volume of the laptop from my main
computer (but I can ping it with no pb). It works fine when I mount an NFS
volume of my main computer from the laptop.
So, is it something impossible when using DHCP ?
Thank you. Francois
--
16 years
No longer getting root mail after upgrade to FC9
by ed
I noticed that since I upgraded to FC9 that I no longer receive any root
e-mail (syslog and cron jobs). I use mutt and the last e-mail I received
was the day before I upgraded!
O also noticed that my weekly cron jobs no longer run!
What am I missing?
-
Ed Gurski
Linux User
# 458454 http://counter.li.org
16 years
F9 text consoles
by MLists
Have installed F9 on a couple of new PC's and am having some head-scratching
behavior with regard to the text-consoles. Systems boot up just fine, and
the GUI works no problem. However trying to get into any of the text
consoles (ie. CTRL-ALT-F1, F2, F3, etc) the monitor just pops up a
"no-signal" and goes into power save. I know the text consoles are actually
there, and working, because if I blind type and log in on one of the text
consoles and run a command of some sort, I can see the task executing if I
do a ps from a console opened in the GUI. The monitors do just fine in text
mode through the initial part of the boot before the GUI part of the boot
sequence starts... after that nothing.
This one's at the top of my "never seen that before" list... anyone have any
suggestions?
Cheers,
>>>>> Mike <<<<<
16 years
fire fox saved psswords
by Mahdi Foladgar
Hello
I upgrade my FC8 to FC9 and firefox to "3 Beta 5"
But All my save password lost. I have my old signons2.txt. how can I retrev
my saved passwords.
All my password encrypted and my new master password same as old.
can any body help me?
16 years
Weirdness with Fedora/XP upgrade
by Beartooth Sciurivore
I had downloaded and burned another DVD, which I thought I would
try. I put it into a machine which dual-boots, either to one hard drive
with F8 or rarely to the other, which has XP.
I ran the test on the disk, and all seemed well. The install
began, and then suddenly the whole screen went white, and stayed that
way. When at last I tried to goose it, it wouldn't react to anything, not
even the power switch held down. I finally pulled the plug.
It still boots to XP all right. It offers to boot to F8, the
default, but I didn't check that; maybe I should.
So I put in the DVD from which I had successfully gotten F9 onto
three machines, and told XP to reboot.
It has done the same thing -- gone through the first few steps,
only to sit there with a blank white screen.
The monitor is new, a HP w2207h 1680x1050; but the other two PCs
manage with it, both behind a KVM switch and directly connected. And the
dual-boot machine is much the newest!
What could be doing this, and how do I fix it??
--
Beartooth Staffwright, Not Quite Clueless Power User
C5; D4; F8; P3; U7.10; Alpine 1.10, Pan 0.132; Privoxy 3
Remember I know little (precious little!) of where up is.
16 years
F9 system freeze - how to file a good bug report
by Krzysztof Dubowik
Hi all,
I am experiencing system freezes at boot time or when fiddling with
wireless network configuration. I have LinkSys WMP54G wireless network card
based on the infamous RaLink chip, which I think is the source of my
problems. However, the F9 release notes claim that it should work.
I used the same system in F8 and every other kernel upgrade cause the
system to hang at boot time. Eventually I upgraded to F9 hoping the it will
improve the situation.
When using default boot sequence in F9 my system hangs when starting
haldaemon. And anyway it did not bring the network interface up at boot, so
I had to change the boot sequence. I disabled NetworkManager and I
start "network" service after "wpa_supplicant". Because wpa_supplicant
needs a few moments to negotiate the encryption keys, I moved the "network"
service even further, after haldaemon. Now the network is brought up at
boot, but occasionally wpa_supplicant does not negotiate the encryption
key. If I try to restart wpa_supplicant the system freezes. Every time. And
it freezes so badly that SysRqKey does not work.
I need help on creating a good bug report. The problem is that with the
default configuration my system freezes at boot or goes up without the
network. When I modify the startup sequence it eihter work ok, or I have to
reboot several time in order to get the wpa_supplicant to work in the first
place.
First important question is: which component is responsible? kernel?
wpa_supplicant? hald?
Or maybe I'm using something wrong and I should use the NetworkManager
instead?
Thanks for your help,
--
Krzysztof
16 years
