>
> Are you sure it is idle. It might be running something from cron-
> say 'updatedb' or similar. That will cause a lot of disk i/o,
> and _ofcourse_ performance will be bad then - the machine is
> doing a lot of other things.
>
I am the only user who use my linux boxes , i never use cron , and i have no
relation with database at all.
> It might also be that you don't have enough memory and the
> machine is swapping itself to death. Running netscape or
> mozilla perhaps? These are known to blow themselves up to
> 50-100 MB (!). That will cause the exact symptoms you're seeing.
>
I never go to X-Windows , i do all my work from console.
cat /proc/meminfo
total: used: free: shared: buffers: cached:
Mem: 114475008 111816704 2658304 5234688 68067328 24711168
Swap: 583954432 2654208 581300224
MemTotal: 111792 kB
MemFree: 2596 kB
MemShared: 5112 kB
Buffers: 66472 kB
Cached: 24132 kB
SwapTotal: 570268 kB
SwapFree: 567676 kB
>
> 2.4.2 isn't all that good either.. 2.4.x doesn't have VM sorted
> out just yet
>
may be this problem of VM as suggested by Mark Hahn.
Thank you,
Jaswinder.
-- These are my opinions not 3Di.
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