I am now running fluxbox and still it's xfs going beserk: in gkrellm again 100% CPU and top shows xfs at the top of the list.... Im goign nuts

hi there,

check your swap space. are there any error listings during boot-process like

error: swapspace not mounted

hda4 not mounted

or the like? once i had the same prob like you: every app that i wanted to run urged the cpu to load like hell. my prob was that the swap partition hadn´t been recognized properly during installation and wouldn´t be used any further. reinstallation was required as i couldn´t change the settings any more.

think it´s worth a check!

see you,

bavarian


ps the brave must win--and the brave is red!

Mmm I don't see any error messages in my boot.log or should I look in another file?

dmesg shows:
Adding Swap: 257000k swap-space (priority -1)

I have done a free:
free
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 319820 315076 4744 0 58136 177968
-/+ buffers/cache: 78972 240848
Swap: 257000 5876 251124

So IMHO it doesn't seem a swap problem??? I still feel its something with XFS.....

Here's a simple example:

I start fluxbox...
I immediately jump to VT1 and do top
Then I see xfs on 98% CPU for a long time...
And,. flux takes a long time to start. When it's finished, I don't see any XFS in my top...

Am I on the right track here???

Well, at this point, I'd say to try and use a different filesystem.

xfs is still experimental, no?

-Shade

mmmm I think we are miscommunicating here... With xfs I mean X-FontServer .....

??? (At least that's what I always assumed....

I may be way off here, but I remember some posts ages ago about xfs running slow and hogging cpu time because "local loopback" was not set up correctly. I just tried google, but cannot find it. Meanwhile, you might just check that ifconfig shows that you have local looppack running.

HTH

Sorry, Satch -- Misunderstood indeed!

Besides, me being a dummy didn't even think before posting and realize that xfs (filesystem) wouldn't run as a process to begin with. *smacks forehead*


Does the command fc-cache -v return everything without errors? Or would this even be relevant? As far as the font server and fonts in general go in linux, I'm pretty worthless.

-Shade

Sorry, was away for a few days, but here's the output of fc-cache -v:

fc-cache: "/usr/share/fonts": caching, 0 fonts, 3 dirs
Can't save cache in "/usr/share/fonts"
fc-cache: "/usr/share/fonts/default": skipping, 0 fonts, 2 dirs
fc-cache: "/usr/share/fonts/default/ghostscript": skipping, 8 fonts, 0 dirs
fc-cache: "/usr/share/fonts/default/Type1": caching, 35 fonts, 0 dirs
Can't save cache in "/usr/share/fonts/default/Type1"
fc-cache: "/usr/share/fonts/bitmap-fonts": skipping, 32 fonts, 0 dirs
fc-cache: "/usr/share/fonts/afms": caching, 0 fonts, 1 dirs
Can't save cache in "/usr/share/fonts/afms"
fc-cache: "/usr/share/fonts/afms/adobe": caching, 0 fonts, 0 dirs
Can't save cache in "/usr/share/fonts/afms/adobe"
fc-cache: "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1": skipping, 29 fonts, 0 dirs
fc-cache: "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/OTF": caching, 0 fonts, 0 dirs
Can't save cache in "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/OTF"
fc-cache: "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF": caching, 65 fonts, 0 dirs
Can't save cache in "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF"
fc-cache: "/home/mike/.fonts": no such directory, skipping
fc-cache: failed

Indeed it gives errors... (I ran it as a normal user, not as root. Should I ?)

When I run as root it shows:

fc-cache: "/usr/share/fonts": caching, 0 fonts, 3 dirs
fc-cache: "/usr/share/fonts/default": skipping, 0 fonts, 2 dirs
fc-cache: "/usr/share/fonts/default/ghostscript": skipping, 8 fonts, 0 dirs
fc-cache: "/usr/share/fonts/default/Type1": caching, 35 fonts, 0 dirs
fc-cache: "/usr/share/fonts/bitmap-fonts": skipping, 32 fonts, 0 dirs
fc-cache: "/usr/share/fonts/afms": caching, 0 fonts, 1 dirs
fc-cache: "/usr/share/fonts/afms/adobe": caching, 0 fonts, 0 dirs
fc-cache: "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1": skipping, 29 fonts, 0 dirs
fc-cache: "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/OTF": caching, 0 fonts, 0 dirs
fc-cache: "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF": caching, 65 fonts, 0 dirs
fc-cache: "/root/.fonts": no such directory, skipping
fc-cache: succeeded

So, could the problem be in the fc-cache thingie? No idea what it does, by the way....???

The loopback is installed OK, it shows up with localhost on 127.0.0.1 so i dont think its that... But thats just my humble opinion...


Thanks for all your input!

Not sure if this will help you but I experienced some serious slowdown problems when I didn't have my hostname listed in my /etc/hosts. I added it to the 127.0.0.1 entry after localhost (example follows).

# cat /etc/hosts
127.0.0.1 localhost antik

OK, But doesn't that mess up with my DNS Name (I run my ownDNS server on my LAN) ?

I tried that also, but it doesnt fix anything... Still xfs 98% for a few minutes