I believe that you are correct in saying swapping is probably the
culprit. This morning I started vmstat from a remote terminal and then
went to the console and sure enough the screen was jerky and slow. When
I reviewed the vmstat report it shows a definite jump in si activity and
then it settles down again.
Now to determine which processes are being swapped out and how to stop
it.
I ran top but could not get a good picture of which processes were
running because I was in a different office on the console.
I should have run top in batch mode but I will do that tomorrow morning
and see what I get.
Thanks to all of you,, for your help thus far.
Michael C. Rock
Systems Analyst
Registered Linux User # 287973
"The time has come the walrus said to speak of many things,,"
"Christians give up what they cannot keep to gain what they cannot lose"
This may have a lot to do with kernel versions. The 2.4 series has gone
through a lot of VM work since the beginning. The tweaking has gone back
and forth, making some things slower, some faster, etc. That doesn't
really resolve your problem, I know. But assuming that you have roughly
the same daemons running on both machines, with similar activity, it's
the kernel's handling of memory/swapping/VM/etc. You could force hoggish
programs to grab less priority with nice, but if your bash is swapped
out, that won't make much difference.
Paul
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