Slower linux after upgrading to slack10

alitrix · 01-01-2005, 06:47 AM

Since I upgraded my Slack9.1 into Slack10.0 my Linux is got slower!!

Is this already know problem? Looks like KDE3.2 is the evil part in this problem.
I will show you a part of my `top`:

Code:

Tasks: 100 total,   1 running,  98 sleeping,   0 stopped,   1 zombie
Cpu(s): 47.6% us,  7.8% sy,  0.0% ni, 40.8% id,  0.3% wa,  0.3% hi,  3.2% si
Mem:    191856k total,   189152k used,     2704k free,      728k buffers
Swap:   457812k total,    38988k used,   418824k free,    82944k cached

  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND                               
 4323 root      15   0 53992  24m  23m S 13.6 13.0 176:22.92 X                                     
 1856 dbzgt     15   0 44192  33m  30m S 11.7 17.6   7:59.74 konqueror                             
 4444 dbzgt     15   0 14792 6880  11m S 10.5  3.6 206:28.12 gkrellm                               
 1982 dbzgt     15   0 10572 7692 5504 S  7.1  4.0  10:07.35 python                                
 2352 dbzgt     15   0 11368 8504 5504 S  3.7  4.4   0:37.17 python                                
 2361 dbzgt     15   0 19656 6000 9124 S  3.7  3.1   0:07.83 xmms                                  
 4497 dbzgt     15   0 19656 6000 9124 S  1.5  3.1   7:05.37 xmms                                  
 2387 dbzgt     16   0  1948 1028 1776 R  1.2  0.5   0:01.48 top                                   
 4441 dbzgt     15   0  4620 1224 4188 S  0.9  0.6   9:58.49 wmusic                                
 4499 dbzgt     15   0 19656 6000 9124 S  0.6  3.1  15:47.33 xmms                                  
 2608 mysql     16   0 46740 1948 4916 S  0.3  1.0   3:54.41 mysqld                                
 2609 mysql     16   0 46740 1948 4916 S  0.3  1.0   3:26.60 mysqld                                
 2865 dbzgt     15   0  9048 4488 5568 S  0.3  2.3   1:17.52 irssi                                 
 4448 dbzgt     16   0  3116 1264 2812 S  0.3  0.7   0:11.74 aterm                                 
 4493 dbzgt     15   0 12276 8420 5776 S  0.3  4.4  17:50.61 wish                                  
 4997 dbzgt     15   0 30464  12m  28m S  0.3  6.7   1:27.67 kdeinit                               
    1 root      16   0   480   76  456 S  0.0  0.0   0:02.58 init                                  
    2 root      34  19     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.01 ksoftirqd/0                           
    3 root       5 -10     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.75 events/0                              
    4 root       5 -10     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.01 khelper

As you see, that X is always high!!

And don't think that's cause of konqueror, if I close it the X is still high doesn't matter what I start

This is some system information
Hostname: AliTriX
OS: Linux 2.6.7/i686
CPU: Pentium III (Katmai), 501.423MHz
Processes: 101
Uptime: 2 Days, 2 Hours, 28 Minutes
Load Average: 2.43
Memory Usage: 152.21mb/191.86mb (79.33%)
Disk Usage: 196.64gb/226.12gb (86.96%)

Hope you people can help me

alitrix · 01-01-2005, 07:03 AM

Here is a top where konqueror isn't started and I killed kdeinit (since I use fluxbox anyway)

Code:

top - 13:57:37 up 2 days,  2:42,  2 users,  load average: 1.05, 1.45, 1.87
Tasks:  85 total,   2 running,  82 sleeping,   0 stopped,   1 zombie
Cpu(s): 45.2% us,  8.7% sy,  0.0% ni, 41.3% id,  0.8% wa,  0.8% hi,  3.2% si
Mem:    191856k total,   188432k used,     3424k free,     1452k buffers
Swap:   457812k total,    36940k used,   420872k free,    91328k cached

  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND                             
 4323 root      16   0 56476  26m  23m R 14.9 13.9 179:00.17 X                                   
 2870 dbzgt     15   0 13304 7944  11m S  9.7  4.1   0:03.08 gkrellm                             
 1982 dbzgt     15   0 10632 5860 5504 S  9.1  3.1  11:41.91 python                              
 2352 dbzgt     15   0 11812 8240 5504 S  4.5  4.3   1:22.73 python                              
 2853 dbzgt     15   0 19656 5432 9124 S  2.6  2.8   0:01.17 xmms                                
 4497 dbzgt     15   0 19656 5432 9124 S  1.0  2.8   7:21.78 xmms                                
 2773 dbzgt     15   0  4712 3112 2812 S  1.0  1.6   0:00.63 aterm                               
 2794 dbzgt     17   0  1956 1036 1776 R  1.0  0.5   0:01.73 top                                 
   35 root      15   0     0    0    0 S  0.3  0.0   0:09.76 kswapd0                             
 2865 dbzgt     15   0 10464 5600 5860 S  0.3  2.9   1:18.89 irssi                               
 4381 dbzgt     15   0  5240 2232 4728 S  0.3  1.2   5:39.97 fluxbox                             
 4441 dbzgt     15   0  4620 1228 4188 S  0.3  0.6  10:05.39 wmusic                              
 4493 dbzgt     15   0 12276 7964 5776 S  0.3  4.2  18:06.63 wish                                
    1 root      16   0   480   76  456 S  0.0  0.0   0:02.59 init                                
    2 root      34  19     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.01 ksoftirqd/0                         
    3 root       5 -10     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.82 events/0                            
    4 root       5 -10     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.01 khelper                             
    5 root       5 -10     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:01.27 kblockd/0                           
    6 root      15   0     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 khubd                               
   31 root      15   0     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:01.20 kapmd                               
   34 root      15   0     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:05.05 pdflush                             
   36 root       6 -10     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 aio/0                               
  195 root      18   0     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 kseriod                             
  346 root       6 -10  1336  292 1296 S  0.0  0.2   0:00.05 udevd                               
  928 root      15   0     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.04 kjournald                           
 1131 root      14 -10  1372  416 1324 S  0.0  0.2   0:00.00 dhcpcd                              
 1157 root      16   0  1412  564 1352 S  0.0  0.3   0:00.41 syslogd                             
 1187 root      16   0  1344  436 1308 S  0.0  0.2   0:00.19 klogd                               
 2415 root      17   0  3140 1092 2876 S  0.0  0.6   0:02.73 sshd                                
 2503 root      16   0  1464  552 1420 S  0.0  0.3   0:00.15 crond                               
 2505 daemon    16   0  1468  592 1424 S  0.0  0.3   0:00.03 atd                                 
 2508 root      16   0  4904 1284 4112 S  0.0  0.7   0:03.08 sendmail                            
 2511 smmsp     15   0  4792 1200 4096 S  0.0  0.6   0:00.04 sendmail                            
 2515 root      18   0  1336  440 1304 S  0.0  0.2   0:00.00 apmd                                
 2581 root      16   0  6880 1100 5392 S  0.0  0.6   0:00.08 smbd

And btw, all those k* apps, which of them I just can close without having problems??
I never use KDE, only gdm to login and go to fluxbox

Cedrik · 01-01-2005, 12:42 PM

I would try a telinit 3, startx, then top too see if the values are the same for %CPU usage field for X

alitrix · 01-01-2005, 01:29 PM

Yeah, I was thikning of that
If that's oke, then I will do it like this next time

alitrix · 01-01-2005, 01:38 PM

Yeah, it became a bit faster

But there are still running too much k* apps

Are these necassry?

predator.hawk · 01-02-2005, 10:36 AM

the k in those apps proble means kernel not kde. Also, you might wanna add an extra 128 MB of RAM or try a kernel patchset against the vanilla sources from kernel.org to improve proformance. I maintain a patchset which is a combo of security features, bug fixs/stablity fixs and proformance patchs. Although it only just got started its been very stable on my slack 10 box and i'm working on a second release intented to reduce latency in the kernel. Also, X being on top shoulden't be that much of a prob.

btw, for my patchset vist http://www.dcaf-security.org/skpatch.php

~predatorfreak

Edit: almost forgot, all of those k progs look very system depend (as in the system would screw up without them).