hi
my system is running too slow for one particular user, but works fine if i login as another user.
I am tired of the sad and sluggish performance
here is some of my system stats and info
Code:
USER MEMORY : 350MiB of 987.3MiB
USED SWAP : 17.3MiB of 2.0GiB
Code:
sudo /sbin/hdparm -Tt /dev/sda
Password:
/dev/sda:
Timing cached reads: 4808 MB in 2.00 seconds = 2404.45 MB/sec
Timing buffered disk reads: 184 MB in 3.03 seconds = 60.67 MB/sec
Code:
sudo /sbin/hdparm -I /dev/sda
/dev/sda:
ATA device, with non-removable media
Model Number: WDC WD1600JS-60MHB5
Serial Number: WD-WCANM8923749
Firmware Revision: 10.02E04
Standards:
Supported: 7 6 5 4
Likely used: 7
Configuration:
Logical max current
cylinders 16383 16383
heads 16 16
sectors/track 63 63
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CHS current addressable sectors: 16514064
LBA user addressable sectors: 268435455
LBA48 user addressable sectors: 312581808
device size with M = 1024*1024: 152627 MBytes
device size with M = 1000*1000: 160041 MBytes (160 GB)
Capabilities:
LBA, IORDY(can be disabled)
Standby timer values: spec'd by Standard, with device specific minimum
R/W multiple sector transfer: Max = 16 Current = 16
DMA: mdma0 mdma1 mdma2 udma0 udma1 udma2 udma3 udma4 *udma5
Cycle time: min=120ns recommended=120ns
PIO: pio0 pio1 pio2 pio3 pio4
Cycle time: no flow control=120ns IORDY flow control=120ns
Commands/features:
Enabled Supported:
* SMART feature set
Security Mode feature set
* Power Management feature set
* Write cache
* Look-ahead
* WRITE_BUFFER command
* READ_BUFFER command
* NOP cmd
* DOWNLOAD_MICROCODE
* 48-bit Address feature set
* Device Configuration Overlay feature set
* Mandatory FLUSH_CACHE
* FLUSH_CACHE_EXT
* SMART error logging
* SMART self-test
* General Purpose Logging feature set
* SATA-I signaling speed (1.5Gb/s)
* SATA-II signaling speed (3.0Gb/s)
* Phy event counters
* Device-initiated interface power management
* Software settings preservation
Security:
Master password revision code = 65534
supported
not enabled
not locked
frozen
not expired: security count
supported: enhanced erase
50min for SECURITY ERASE UNIT. 50min for ENHANCED SECURITY ERASE UNIT.
Checksum: correct
Code:
sudo hdparm /dev/sda
/dev/sda:
IO_support = 0 (default 16-bit)
readonly = 0 (off)
readahead = 256 (on)
geometry = 19457/255/63, sectors = 312581808, start = 0
top command output:
Code:
top - 16:04:34 up 6:45, 6 users, load average: 0.14, 0.30, 0.46
Tasks: 147 total, 1 running, 146 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu(s): 0.7%us, 0.2%sy, 0.0%ni, 99.2%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st
Mem: 1010996k total, 869448k used, 141548k free, 18828k buffers
Swap: 2048276k total, 17724k used, 2030552k free, 508056k cached
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
3741 root 15 0 364m 39m 10m S 1 4.0 6:53.96 Xorg
12090 varun.sh 15 0 93648 24m 12m S 0 2.4 0:43.29 gnome-terminal
1 root 16 0 1632 540 448 S 0 0.1 0:01.28 init
2 root RT 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.11 migration/0
3 root 34 19 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.05 ksoftirqd/0
4 root RT 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 watchdog/0
5 root RT 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.16 migration/1
6 root 34 19 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.16 ksoftirqd/1
7 root RT 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 watchdog/1
8 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.09 events/0
9 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 events/1
10 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 khelper
11 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 kthread
14 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.10 kblockd/0
15 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 kblockd/1
16 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 kseriod
75 root 15 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.10 pdflush
76 root 15 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.25 pdflush
77 root 15 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.69 kswapd0
78 root 11 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 aio/0
79 root 11 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 aio/1
708 root 15 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 kirqd
1570 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.22 ata/0
1571 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.06 ata/1
1575 root 12 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 scsi_eh_0
1577 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 scsi_eh_1
1689 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 khubd
1799 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.27 kjournald
1881 root 15 0 1604 544 468 S 0 0.1 0:00.00 logd
2025 root 15 -4 2612 1048 360 S 0 0.1 0:00.22 udevd
2779 root 11 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 shpchpd
2916 root 11 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 hda_codec
3132 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:03.96 kjournald
3134 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.30 kjournald
3300 daemon 16 0 1712 388 292 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 portmap
kindly help
