System slowing down

edubidu · 09-21-2007, 03:31 AM

Hi
I have a Suse 10.2 On a Compaq nc8430 (dual cpu!!) and the system is slowing down every time i open vmware-player, vmware workstation, superkaramba or the zen-update manager, when it trys to find out the software dependencies of the soft to update. Dma is activated, but the cpu is 95-100% used.
Somebody can help me?
Below some information:

Code:

top - 09:36:07 up  1:09,  4 users,  load average: 1.81, 1.62, 1.56
Tasks: 132 total,   2 running, 130 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
Cpu(s): 51.9%us, 18.8%sy,  0.0%ni, 29.1%id,  0.2%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.0%si,  0.0%st
Mem:   2076168k total,  2000340k used,    75828k free,   144808k buffers
Swap:  2104472k total,       48k used,  2104424k free,  1492900k cached

PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
17964 root      25   0 61132  23m 6284 R  100  1.2   3:12.66 update-status
 5014 root      15   0  348m  27m 8248 S   39  1.4   3:10.28 Xorg
 8098 loc       16   0  157m  61m  18m S    1  3.0   0:36.51 firefox-bin
   15 root      10  -5     0    0    0 S    1  0.0   0:17.32 kacpid
 6206 loc       15   0 38436  21m  16m S    1  1.1   0:09.72 kicker
 7064 loc       15   0  2256 1052  764 R    0  0.1   0:04.66 top
    1 root      15   0   744  288  240 S    0  0.0   0:01.23 init
    2 root      RT   0     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 migration/0
    3 root      34  19     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 ksoftirqd/0


another example:
Mem:   2076168k total,  2018044k used,    58124k free,    67852k buffers
Swap:  2104472k total,       60k used,  2104412k free,  1562996k cached

  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
18259 loc        5 -10  414m 334m 326m S  148 16.5  17:04.73 vmware-vmx
 5014 root      15   0  372m  37m  16m S    1  1.8   6:27.40 Xorg
   15 root      10  -5     0    0    0 S    1  0.0   0:39.07 kacpid
 6204 loc       15   0 31332  16m  13m S    0  0.8   0:03.55 kdesktop
 6206 loc       15   0 38444  21m  16m S    0  1.1   0:16.11 kicker
    1 root      15   0   744  288  240 S    0  0.0   0:01.23 init

reddazz · 09-21-2007, 03:43 AM

I've edited the text to change the font colour so that your the output you posted is visible and put code tags.

edubidu · 09-24-2007, 05:20 AM

ok, I found something: seems that it is a process named "update-status" (zmd) every time I start my PC... When I kill this process, it seems to be ok.
I removed the following packages:
update-test-affects-package-manager
libzypp-zmd-backend
sqlite-zmd
zmd
rug
zen-updater

Seems to be better. But I needed to restart.

edubidu · 10-05-2007, 03:50 AM

At times, it is the vmware-player that slows down the system. I open the virtual machine, and after about 2-3 minutes the CPU is on 100%. Only a shutdown of the vmplayer helps.
What about others? Do you have similar problems with vmware?

I run version 2.0.1 build-55017, Host OS version 2.6.18.8-0.5-default.

My virtual machine is an XP prof SP2 running NAT (can't bridge because of our domain configuration only 1 IP address for 1 physical computer is admitted).

Help!! I'm going crazy.