sluggish performance Jaunty

[H.S.]

Gary Kirkpatrick wrote:
> On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 12:37 PM, H.S. <hs.samix at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Gary Kirkpatrick wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> I could not get > free -m to work either.  I copied it into terminal.
>>  Does
>>> not require sudo does it?
>>>
>>> $ > free -m
>>> bash: -m: command not found
>> "$>" denotes the prompt, you must not type ">" before the command. Just
>> type "free -m" in a terminal (without the quotes).
> 
> 
> OK, that's better.
> 
>             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
> Mem:           375        370          4          0          5        101
> -/+ buffers/cache:        263        111
> Swap:          870        245        624

Your system is using quite a bit of swap. Using swap is slower than
using RAM.

Since you are not using an special effects, I think you look in to
solving the skype problem first since you wrote it is using a lot of cpu.




> ~$ df -h
> Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/sda5              19G   12G  6.0G  67% /
> tmpfs                 188M     0  188M   0% /lib/init/rw
> varrun                188M  356K  188M   1% /var/run
> varlock               188M     0  188M   0% /var/lock
> udev                  188M  120K  188M   1% /dev
> tmpfs                 188M  988K  187M   1% /dev/shm
> lrm                   188M  2.0M  186M   2%
> /lib/modules/2.6.27-11-generic/volatile
> /dev/sda1              18G   15G  2.9G  84% /media/disk

Looks good, none of the partitions are more than 90% full.

Regards.



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