On Tue, 23 Sep 2003, Rock wrote:
> I have one of my servers that if I let it set for a while (several hours
> or so) and then I go to access the server via the console, the screen is
> 'very' slow. Even the mouse moves in jerks and very hesitantly. Once
> it starts working after 15 or 20 seconds, everything is fine again and I
> do not notice any degradation at all. It works like me early in the
> morning,, hesitantly.
Sounds like something is being swapped out... the shell, probably.
> Any ideas about where I can look?
Have vmstat running on another terminal. Look for activity in the "si"
column when the terminal gets better. Look at top's "swap" line. A large
"used" line may indicate not-enough-RAM. Then again, it may just indicate
infrequently-used memory. Borrow some RAM from a friend (or tell the
kernel to use less via the "mem=nn" option). Is it better with more RAM?
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