[POB/London]

Hello folks,

I'm using SuSE 8.1 Pro on a 1GHz AMD machine w/ 512Mb of RAM. The machine has two disks, but the Linux one is an 80Gb, which is about 4% full.

Apps work fine once they've started (the machine doesn't hang or anything), but this takes AGES! Loading a Konqueror file manager window, for example, takes about 30 seconds. I have looked through startup logs and all my vonfig options, but I can't see anything amiss. There are no rogue / looping processes I don't think.

Any ideas? Anyone else had this?
Thanks!

BTW, I'm a newish Linux user. I went over from the ubiquitous W2KPro recently at home, but I still use Solaris at work.


PS > JUst ask for any screenshots etc, I can upload them....

[Dapper Dan]

I ran into a similar problem once, and as it turned out, had several instances of some programs running that I didn't really need. At a terminal type:

top [enter]

And see if there are any programs running that seem to be using more resources than they should. If so, you can then go to "services" and turn them off if you are certain they are not needed.

[POB/London]

2:20am up 9:57, 3 users, load average: 0.10, 0.28, 0.41
72 processes: 64 sleeping, 8 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
CPU states: 3.9% user, 2.3% system, 0.0% nice, 93.6% idle
Mem: 498340K av, 447824K used, 50516K free, 0K shrd, 125300K buff
Swap: 642560K av, 2288K used, 640272K free 122540K cached

PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND
1995 lmiller -51 0 5488 5488 3984 S 2.5 1.1 16:07 artsd
8548 lmiller 15 0 28940 11M 9344 R 1.7 2.4 0:01 kdeinit
1845 root 15 0 46748 29M 3400 R 0.9 6.0 32:11 X
8851 lmiller 15 0 964 964 756 R 0.9 0.1 0:00 top
8848 lmiller 15 0 7452 7452 4544 R 0.1 1.4 0:00 xmms
1 root 15 0 236 236 204 S 0.0 0.0 0:04 init
2 root 15 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 keventd
3 root 34 19 0 0 0 SWN 0.0 0.0 0:00 ksoftirqd_CPU0
4 root 15 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:01 kswapd
5 root 25 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 bdflush
6 root 15 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 kupdated
7 root 16 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 kinoded
9 root 19 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 mdrecoveryd
13 root 15 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 kreiserfsd
74 root 0 -20 0 0 0 SW< 0.0 0.0 0:00 lvm-mpd
568 root 15 0 668 668 548 S 0.0 0.1 0:00 syslogd
571 root 15 0 1060 1060 428 S 0.0 0.2 0:00 klogd
607 root 15 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 khubd
1119 bin 15 0 404 404 320 S 0.0 0.0 0:00 portmap
1215 root 18 0 1568 1568 1296 S 0.0 0.3 0:00 sshd
1525 root 15 0 2500 2500 1340 S 0.0 0.5 0:00 cupsd
1554 root 16 0 668 668 572 S 0.0 0.1 0:00 dhcpcd
1798 root 15 0 1452 1452 1136 S 0.0 0.2 0:00 master
1812 postfix 15 0 1728 1728 1360 S 0.0 0.3 0:00 qmgr
1823 root 15 0 664 664 572 S 0.0 0.1 0:00 kdm
1824 root 15 0 1376 1376 1152 S 0.0 0.2 0:00 smpppd
1843 at 15 0 328 300 244 S 0.0 0.0 0:00 atd
1862 root 15 0 576 568 476 S 0.0 0.1 0:00 cron
1878 root 15 0 632 628 504 S 0.0 0.1 0:00 nscd
1883 root 15 0 632 628 504 S 0.0 0.1 0:00 nscd
1884 root 15 0 632 628 504 S 0.0 0.1 0:00 nscd
1885 root 15 0 632 628 504 S 0.0 0.1 0:00 nscd
1886 root 15 0 632 628 504 S 0.0 0.1 0:00 nscd
1887 root 15 0 632 628 504 S 0.0 0.1 0:00 nscd
1888 root 15 0 632 628 504 S 0.0 0.1 0:00 nscd
1897 root 16 0 972 964 808 S 0.0 0.1 0:00 kdm
1910 root 16 0 492 492 424 S 0.0 0.0 0:00 mingetty

[POB/London]

Nothing unusual there, surely?

Ta for the help, by the way.

[Dapper Dan]

Doesn't look it. I wish I could tell you where to look from here. Sorry I couldn't help more.