FC3- System Takes Minutes To Open Any Application

[Amit Rana]

Thanks for the response.

> What is causing all the interrupts?
Any idea, how I can find that?

>Some USB device?  What devices
> are connected to the computer? 
I have 2 USB ports ( 1 is free, another is used by a mouse). I have
one pcmcia lan card, cd r/w, floppy disk, other than that nothing
special. I am attaching output of dmesg command.

>What services are running?
I am attaching result of ps -efl command

>Try
> shutting services off until you find what is causing the problem.
I will try that next

Regards,
Amit.

On Wed, 08 Dec 2004 09:10:05 -0700, Robin Laing
<Robin.Laing at drdc-rddc.gc.ca> wrote:
> Amit Rana wrote:
> 
> 
> > Hi,
> > I shifted to FC3 last week and since then my system is working SO slow.
> >
> > P4-M 1.8, 512MB RAM
> >
> > Load Average is mostly 2+, RAM also get used free soon. Following is
> > the output of top, free, vmstat commands when I was only running
> > firefox and 1 terminal
> >
> > [root at localhost ~]# free -m
> > total used free shared buffers cached
> > Mem: 503 488 15 0 108 141
> > -/+ buffers/cache: 238 265
> > Swap: 1019 0 1019
> >
> > [root at localhost Desktop]# vmstat
> > procs -----------memory---------- ---swap-- -----io---- --system-- ----cpu----
> > r b swpd free buff cache si so bi bo in cs us sy id wa
> > 1 2 276 6880 99140 178664 0 1 74 29 1041 390 7 2 19 73
> 
> I am no expert but looking at vmstat, I noticed that there are 1041
> interrupts received and 390 context switches.  On my system
> (workstation) I have 7 interrupts and 17 context switches.  On my
> workstation I have seti-boinc running and has been up for 25 days.
> 
> Also i/o waiting is at 73%.  Something is making allot of calls to the
> processor and thus loading it down.
> 
> What is causing all the interrupts?  Some USB device?  What devices
> are connected to the computer?  What services are running?  Try
> shutting services off until you find what is causing the problem.
> 
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