Re: Reduced system performance after prolonged usage

[root <karan@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>							-- mary
>
>On Thu, 24 Jun 1999, Karan Girotra wrote:
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>> hey ,
>> i am using rh 5.2 with kernel 2.2.9 . after some usage (about 2 hours of usage
>> with a gui ) , the system suddenly goes into endless disk rw operations and
>> even moving my mouse takes about 5 seconds  to respond . in efect rendering the
>> system unusable . Memory does not seem to be the problem as free lists a decent
>> amount of freememory . Procinfo confirms that the unusualy high number of disk
>> operations .  I have 32 mb ram and 48 mb swap running on a cyrix MII 233.
>> shutting down x does return the system to normal operational mode but
>> restarting x renders it unusable again.
>>   
>> 
>> --
>> Regards ..
>> Karan Girotra,                       
>> Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi  
>> 91-011-6864507                         
>> 91-011-6862034 
>> Icq# 25636434
>> 


ATTN..


another interesting thing i have noted the sum of read and write operations
shown by procinfo is not equal to the number of interrupt requests made on the
irq of my harddisk again shown by procinfo .
i have only 1 harddisk 
maybe this could be related ....
and changing the window mannager has no effect 
the problem seems to be at the kernel level
 

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