machine load extreme peaking for short periods....mouse not moving etc.

[Peter Teuben]

On 01/15/2013 08:05 PM, Rashkae wrote:
> On 01/15/2013 03:30 PM, Peter Teuben wrote:
>
>>
>> I figured my new i7 based 4GB memory SSD on / based laptop would make
>> this history.   I can't
>> believe this is still happening. Admittedly, 4GB on a 64bit machine is
>> theoretically
>> not much better than 2GB on a 32bit machine, but this is really crazy
>> that I have
>> to wait for the mouse to respond again for good fraction of a minute.
>> What is going on here,
>> is this is problem others have seen as well?
>>
>> peter
>>
>
> Others have already mentioned that 4GB is plenty for most normal use
> cases.
>
> What hardware did you keep from your old system to the new upgrade?
>
> After one of the PC fits, check the output of dmesg.
>
> Also, can you post here the output of 'free' and 'cat /proc/meminfo'
>


the laptop is completely new hardware, but I did copy over all user
account settings,
basically re-using my $HOME.

free
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:       3743260    3495904     247356          0      27360     755152
-/+ buffers/cache:    2713392    1029868
Swap:      3918844    1451692    2467152



cat /proc/meminfo
MemTotal:        3743260 kB
MemFree:          277100 kB
Buffers:           27108 kB
Cached:           752332 kB
SwapCached:       329216 kB
Active:          2145832 kB
Inactive:        1032840 kB
Active(anon):    1941936 kB
Inactive(anon):   900320 kB
Active(file):     203896 kB
Inactive(file):   132520 kB
Unevictable:         120 kB
Mlocked:             120 kB
SwapTotal:       3918844 kB
SwapFree:        2467096 kB
Dirty:                52 kB
Writeback:             0 kB
AnonPages:       2189272 kB
Mapped:           184252 kB
Shmem:            442996 kB
Slab:             106148 kB
SReclaimable:      50592 kB
SUnreclaim:        55556 kB
KernelStack:        5592 kB
PageTables:        69228 kB
NFS_Unstable:          0 kB
Bounce:                0 kB
WritebackTmp:          0 kB
CommitLimit:     5790472 kB
Committed_AS:    9227052 kB
VmallocTotal:   34359738367 kB
VmallocUsed:      406168 kB
VmallocChunk:   34359270300 kB
HardwareCorrupted:     0 kB
AnonHugePages:         0 kB
HugePages_Total:       0
HugePages_Free:        0
HugePages_Rsvd:        0
HugePages_Surp:        0
Hugepagesize:       2048 kB
DirectMap4k:      738496 kB
DirectMap2M:     3147776 kB