System slowed down- again!

Dotan Cohen dotancohen at gmail.com
Sat Jul 2 14:02:42 UTC 2005


On 7/2/05, Alexander Dalloz <ad+lists at uni-x.org> wrote:
> Am Sa, den 02.07.2005 schrieb Dotan Cohen um 15:17:
> 
> > Well, this is the first time that I've used Gmail in lynx! Today my
> > FC4 system started slowing down on me, becoming unusable. I ran top,
> > as was suggested to me when i had the same problem on FC3, and I just
> > uploaded the output of 3 runs of top here: http://dotancohen.com/top I
> > also checked in SysGuard, you can see the screenshot here:
> > http://dotancohen.com/sysguard.png
> 
> > Dotan Cohen
> 
> Your top shows 2 zombies. Start by finding them:
> 
> ps axuwwww | grep Z
> 
> Will be interesting to know who they are.
> 
> Alexander
> 
> 
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> Fedora Core 2 GNU/Linux on Athlon with kernel 2.6.11-1.35_FC2smp
> Serendipity 15:30:46 up 6 days, 22:22, load average: 0.20, 0.26, 0.17

Thanks, Alex. I've since had to restart the machine twice. After the
first time I ran ps axuwwww | grep Z. At that time I had only one
zombie show up in top:
USER       PID %CPU %MEM    VSZ   RSS TTY      STAT START   TIME COMMAND
root      3571  0.0  0.0      0     0 tty4     Z<   16:37   0:00 [X] <defunct>
500       3802  0.0  0.0    364   108 tty6     R+   16:45   0:00 grep Z

As soon as the machine slows down again, I'll run top, and in the
event of zombies, I'll run ps.

I don't think that the problem is anacron, as Andy suggested, as the
machine was up all night. I ussually don't turn the computer off at
night.

Dotan Cohen
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