Whats going on to my linux hard drive?

alaios · 10-08-2006, 05:30 PM

Check vmstat -s output
1036588 total memory
581356 used memory
240400 active memory
303212 inactive memory
455232 free memory
44600 buffer memory
364396 swap cache
1718912 total swap
0 used swap
1718912 free swap
5753 non-nice user cpu ticks
0 nice user cpu ticks
2044 system cpu ticks
163 idle cpu ticks
3414 IO-wait cpu ticks
78 IRQ cpu ticks
2 softirq cpu ticks
311178 pages paged in
99358 pages paged out
0 pages swapped in
0 pages swapped out
45383 interrupts
114247 CPU context switches
1160346292 boot time
3766 forks

also
alaios@akroneiro:~> ps -e f | pgpg
bash: pgpg: command not found

alaios · 10-08-2006, 05:59 PM

and after waiting 20 minutes for my hard disk to stop writing i have noticed this one
kroneiro:/home/alaios # vmstat -s
1036588 total memory
266232 used memory
100436 active memory
137376 inactive memory
770356 free memory
20516 buffer memory
76448 swap cache
1718912 total swap
349052 used swap
1369860 free swap
62425 non-nice user cpu ticks
1811 nice user cpu ticks
37318 system cpu ticks
179 idle cpu ticks
86547 IO-wait cpu ticks
1368 IRQ cpu ticks
48 softirq cpu ticks
6028012 pages paged in
5652683 pages paged out
111477 pages swapped in
1310805 pages swapped out
802192 interrupts
1605617 CPU context switches
1160346292 boot time
6013 forks

haertig · 10-08-2006, 11:26 PM

There's a big difference between your post #16 and #17 above. #17 shows a bunch of swapping is going on. You said "after 20 minutes". Well, in that 20 minutes you had 1.3 million pages swapped out. Your system would have been very slow during that time.

Did you ever find out what was starting mplayer? You are swapping because of low memory, and previously we identified mplayer as a big memory user on your system.

Also, you said:

Quote:

alaios@akroneiro:~> ps -e f | pgpg
bash: pgpg: command not found

I think you meant to type "pg", not "pgpg".

Also, there's another command that might be even more readable than "ps -e f". Try "pstree". It may already be installed on your computer. This should make it easy to determine what is starting mplayer.

alaios · 10-09-2006, 03:37 AM

During the period of 20 minutes. I couldnt move even the mouse!!!!! I have removed mplayer packages but still same problem exists!!! I assume its a problem related with a process called parse-metadata. Its a process related to zen!!! But still i cant understand why so have load on my system?

Quote:

Originally Posted by haertig

There's a big difference between your post #16 and #17 above. #17 shows a bunch of swapping is going on. You said "after 20 minutes". Well, in that 20 minutes you had 1.3 million pages swapped out. Your system would have been very slow during that time.

Did you ever find out what was starting mplayer? You are swapping because of low memory, and previously we identified mplayer as a big memory user on your system.

Also, you said:

I think you meant to type "pg", not "pgpg".

Also, there's another command that might be even more readable than "ps -e f". Try "pstree". It may already be installed on your computer. This should make it easy to determine what is starting mplayer.

haertig · 10-09-2006, 09:35 AM

Are you running SuSE? Doing a Google search on "parse-metadata" turned up a few other poor individuals who look to be having the same problem you are.

The second link below, from our LQ.org forums right here, appears to offer a solution.

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-f.../msg00332.html
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...d.php?t=483059

alaios · 10-09-2006, 06:28 PM

Thx to all for the support u provided me. Finally i have fixed the problem

!!!
The problem was created from process-parse metadata that was swapping all the time (ffs what that process was calculating..even when i edit A2 pictures with photoshop my system doesnt perform so bad)
I have uninstalled zen and now i feel 20 kilos lighter:P:P
a)Whyy Suse included Zen? to system?
b)Why with a Celeron 2Ghz with 1GB Ram and 2 gb swap space, suse 10.1 performs like executing on a 386 machine:P:P:P
c)Next time suse has to design better the performance issues of suse 10.1