[Novalug] DSL problem

John Holland jbholland@gmail.com
Wed Aug 25 19:36:53 EDT 2010


You're spending too much time on OpenBSD, he should do "ps -ef"





On 08/25/2010 05:27 PM, Jay Hart wrote:
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>>> ps aux
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>>
>> This produced 18 lines, the first of which contained the word "ERROR". The
>> second was a bit more emphatic: "FATAL ERROR"
>>
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> Are you running this as root?  that same command on Fedora 13 works just fine.
>
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>>> "ntop" will show what processes are consuming CPU cycle times.
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>> I downloaded, installed and ran this. It produced a bit over three
>> screens. If every line is a running process, there werte/are 157 of them,
>> which seems to be a lot. But when I lok at it, I don't gety the feeling
>> that anything is wrong. i do when I run ps aux.
>>
>>      
> Brain fart here Charlie, use 'top' instead.  This should show you processes
> consuming CPU cycles.
>
> Jay
>
>    
>> Charlie
>>
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>>> Jay
>>>
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>>>> What is the command that lists all processes? That would tell me,
>>>> wouldn't it?
>>>>
>>>> Charlie
>>>>
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>>>>> Does the system come back to being usable?  If so, this could be some
>>>>> processes running in the background that gobble up system resources
>>>>> which affect your performance.
>>>>>
>>>>> Rich
>>>>>
>>>>> On Mon, 2010-08-23 at 23:17 -0400, cmhowe@patriot.net wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>            
>>>>>> List,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> For a bit longer than a week I am having connectivity problems.
>>>>>> Occasionally (infrequently, but it does happen) I lose connectivity
>>>>>> altogether. Most of the time the problem is that it looks like I am
>>>>>> about
>>>>>> to to be able to view the sie I click on, but I have to wait -- and
>>>>>> wait
>>>>>> and wait and wait.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I realize this is an extremely vague description of the problem but
>>>>>> it's
>>>>>> the besy I can do at the moment.
>>>>>> Ideas solicited.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Charlie
>>>>>>
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