Defrag Constant HD accessing 763

Chris

You know, I don't know. I think so. But, see below for an update on that....

Well, here's what it said for last several items: apache 4787 0.0 0.1 268 plus 188 1544 ? S Mar02 0:00usr-sbin-httpd apache 4788 0.0 0.1 268 plus 188 1544 ? S Mar02 0:00usr-sbin-httpd liam 28996 0.0 0.8 27944 6228 ? S 10:16 0:00 kiosftp kdeinit sftptmp-ksocket-liam-klaunchertRdN3b.slave-sockettmp-ksocket-liam-konquerorQOGxjb.slave-socket liam 7307 0.0 0.8 30600 6260 ? S Mar02 0:21 kiouiserver kdeinit liam 5792 0.0 0.8 33296 6224 ? S Mar02 3:35 kded kdeinit liam 7542 0.0 0.3 34816 2364 ? S Mar02 1:20 knotify kdeinit liam 7545 0.0 0.2 44928 1816 ? S Mar02 0:22usr-bin-artsd -F 16 -S 4096 -s 1 -m artsmessage -c drkonqi -l 3 -f liam 25413 0.0 1.9 49812 15220 ? Sl Mar22 0:22 nautilus file:---home-liam-Downloads-Pink%20Floyd%20-%20ALL liam 1483 0.0 1.1 51000 8624 ? S Mar31 0:42 gaim liam 12884 0.0 0.7 51656 5812 ? S Mar03 3:43usr-bin-kget liam 20767 0.1 1.0 62636 8152 ? S Mar29 6:52usr-lib-opera-plugins-operamotifwrapper-1 27 30usr-lib-opera-plugins-libflashplayer.so liam 5113 0.5 2.0 66408 15848 ? Sl Mar27 56:12 skype liam 6778 0.0 3.1 68128 24504 ? Sl Mar02 4:41 gnome-terminal liam 6666 0.2 4.6 70452 36092 ? S Mar02 92:18 akregator liam 5782 0.0 5.1 83528 40188 ? S Mar02 9:32 konqueror liam 6835 0.0 0.6 93236 4720 ? Sl Mar02 27:29 xmms -e %F root 3246 0.0 0.2 97932 2092 ? S Mar27 0:01 smbd -D mysql 4602 0.0 0.1 105280 1404 ? Sl Mar02 3:39usr-sbin-mysqld --basedir=--datadir=-var-lib-mysql --user=mysql --pid-file=-var-lib-mysql-WEBDEV01.pid --skip-locking --socket=-vliam 20728 0.5 7.5 149100 58336 ? S Mar29 40:11usr-lib-opera-8.52-20060201.5-opera -style keramik liam 31103 0.2 11.6 192600 90376 ? Sl Mar23 43:13usr-lib-thunderbird-thunderbird-bin root 5392 12.8 11.7 216552 91164 ? S Mar02 5919:31usr-X11R6-bin-X :0 -audit 0 -authvar-gdm-:0.Xauth -nolisten tcp vt7 liam 31379 0.0 6.2 219904 48160 ? Sl Mar23 11:30 liam 28257 0.3 0.2 283196 1596 ? Sl Mar30 17:00 javavm liam 6060 27.9 6.0 456844 46652 ? Rl Mar02 12861:27opt-openoffice.org2.0-program-soffice.bin -writer liam 13205 0.1 8.7 498860 67972 ? Sl Mar09 46:01usr-local-Zend-ZendStudioClient-5.1.0-jre-bin-java -Xmx268435456 -Xms16777216 com.zerog.lax.LAXusr-local-Zend-ZendStudioClient-5.liam 5778 0.4 2.4 627640 18840 ? S Mar02 193:37usr-bin-xfce4-panel

I could certainly shut down apache, as this is just a workstation and doesn't need the Web server. But all the rest of that stuff is needed. (Well, OK, XMMS isn't needed, but it sure makes work a little more bearable. *grin*)

Well, I found another stick of 256MB. So now I have 1GB of RAM. I restarted all the programs I had open before I rebooted, and not the top of top looks like this:

top - 10:52:26 up 12 min, 6 users, load average: 0.90, 0.83, 0.56 Tasks: 124 total, 1 running, 123 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie Cpu(s): 11.9% us, 0.3% sy, 0.0% ni, 87.9% id, 0.0% wa, 0.0% hi, 0.0% si Mem: 1035020k total, 853748k used, 181272k free, 32196k buffers Swap: 1540088k total, 0k used, 1540088k free, 461840k cached

Much better! I can already see some performance improvement. The true test will be tomorrow morning when I come in and shake the mouse to un-screensave and see how long it takes before I can actually use the GUI. I'm sure there may be a little thrashing, but more than several seconds of constant HD use and no ability to use the GUI will likely mean something is still out of whack. But, I'm optimistic!

Thanks again, all! I really appreciate all the feedback and advice! -Liam