Defrag Constant HD accessing 762

David L. Johnson

Thanks for all the replies, all! According to TOP, I have 1.5GB of swap, and at this moment 1.2GB is used. Actually. here it is: top - 09:16:54 up 31 days, 21:43, 6 users, load average: 1.95, 1.99, 2.08 Tasks: 146 total, 3 running, 139 sleeping, 0 stopped, 4 zombie Cpu(s): 84.0% us, 13.7% sy, 0.0% ni, 2.0% id, 0.0% wa, 0.3% hi, 0.0% si Mem: 774928k total, 765060k used, 9868k free, 5124k buffers Swap: 1540088k total, 1254012k used, 286076k free, 124224k cached

The 6 users, BTW, are just 6 terminal screens I have open, a couple for local stuff and the rest SSH'ed to remote servers. They're not other users actually logged on and using resources.

The PC originally used shared video RAM, but the video "card" shorted one day and now I'm using a seperate AGP video card. I'd already set the BIOS to not use shared video memory.

No, I generally don't use any big video or audio files. I mean, I use XMMS to listen to MP3's, and that's about it. All I mainly do on this machine is PHP-mySQL development. Zend Studio uses Java, and when it loads it tends to "thrash" a bit, but not much.

The worst of the thrashing happens for 5 to 10 minutes after coming out of "sleep" mode. Actually, that's not right. I don't have any of the power saving features on, except regular screen saver. But when I come in in the morning each day, the PC will be slow slow slow to the point of not being able to even use the GUI at all for minutes while the HD thrashes like crazy. (Right now I'm using Xfce which is pretty memory light, but the same thing has always happened with KDE and Gnome as well.)

Thanks again for the suggestions! Oh yeah, I've gotten it down to only 70% HD used, but no change in the thrashing. -Liam