Re: [Fwd: Re: "why is my Linux so damn slow?"]
First of all, an important note: I have realized only now that many,
not all, the times when I was not running firefox myself and
everything was still "freezed as usual" there was one other user
account (this is the "family work computer") that was still keeping
Firefox open. when there is REALLY no firefox running the system is
still quite slower than IMVHO a computer like this should be, so for
what is worth I personally feel that's not the whole answer. but it
*is* usable.
Now, to your question:
On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 16:28:48 PM +0000, T. Horsnell (tsh(a)mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk) wrote:
Do you have any mem/disk errors logged in /var/log/messages?
Are you able to run a memory test? (eg memtest86)
I ran memtest86 when I had the live CD and it was fine. Of course this
doesn't mean it _is_ fine now.
The last lines of /var/log/messages right now are as follows:
Feb 12 17:21:23 polaris abrtd: New crash /var/spool/abrt/ccpp-1297527671-7486, processing
Feb 12 17:21:23 polaris abrtd: Registered Action plugin 'RunApp'
Feb 12 17:21:23 polaris abrtd:
RunApp('/var/spool/abrt/ccpp-1297527671-7486','test x"`cat
component`" = x"xorg-x11-server-Xorg" && cp /var/log/Xorg.0.log
.')
Feb 12 17:21:35 polaris abrtd: Getting crash infos...
Feb 12 17:21:47 polaris abrtd: Getting crash infos...
Feb 12 17:21:56 polaris gnome-keyring-daemon[2029]: couldn't set environment variable
in session: The name org.gnome.SessionManager was not provided by any .service files
Feb 12 17:26:01 polaris auditd[1055]: Audit daemon rotating log files
Feb 12 17:26:42 polaris kernel: [22011.781901] npviewer.bin[7928]: segfault at 418 ip
00000000007e1c86 sp 00000000ffc4fce8 error 6 in libflashplayer.so[592000+b2e000]
Feb 12 17:26:44 polaris abrt[8160]: saved core dump of pid 7928
(/usr/lib/nspluginwrapper/npviewer.bin) to
/var/spool/abrt/ccpp-1297528002-7928.new/coredump (159985664 bytes)
Feb 12 17:26:44 polaris abrtd: Directory 'ccpp-1297528002-7928' creation detected
Feb 12 17:26:44 polaris abrtd: Blacklisted package 'nspluginwrapper'
Feb 12 17:26:44 polaris abrtd: Corrupted or bad crash /var/spool/abrt/ccpp-1297528002-7928
(res:2), deleting
the only memory or disk lines *I* recognize in /var/log/messages as
maybe related to this discussion are lines like these at each
boot/reboot (I have no problem to send off list the whole file, of
course, I simply don't want to fill everybody's inboxes with a big
attachment)
Feb 7 15:16:15 polaris kernel: [ 0.000000] Your BIOS doesn't leave a aperture
memory hole
Feb 7 15:16:15 polaris kernel: [ 0.000000] PM: Registered nosave memory:
0000000020000000 - 0000000024000000
Feb 7 15:16:15 polaris kernel: [ 0.000000] Memory: 7981808k/8912896k available (4551k
kernel code, 656264k absent, 274824k reserved, 7258k data, 948k init)
Feb 7 15:16:15 polaris kernel: [ 0.000000] please try 'cgroup_disable=memory'
option if you don't want memory cgroups
...
Feb 10 09:21:31 polaris kernel: [ 7.571283] EDAC amd64: This node reports that Memory
ECC is currently disabled, set F3x44[22] (0000:00:18.3).