sluggish performance Jaunty
H.S.
hs.samix at gmail.com
Tue May 5 18:40:18 UTC 2009
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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