HD thrashing in Kubuntu 6.06

[strebormj]

I have a Acer Travelmate 8204 with a huge HD and 2 GB RAM. I'm using Kubuntu 6.06 with KDE 3.5.4.

I don't experience much swapping in XP, but in Kubuntu, it's chronic. It runs the battery down when my laptop isn't plugged in.

Here is the output from top:

top - 08:17:05 up 1 day, 13:28, 1 user, load average: 2.77, 3.23, 3.38
Tasks: 119 total, 5 running, 112 sleeping, 0 stopped, 2 zombie
Cpu(s): 32.6% us, 6.3% sy, 0.6% ni, 58.3% id, 1.2% wa, 0.4% hi, 0.5% si
Mem: 2075000k total, 1266876k used, 808124k free, 199696k buffers
Swap: 1445808k total, 29660k used, 1416148k free, 649720k cached

PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
15493 root 15 0 174m 152m 3824 S 2.0 7.5 16:35.98 Xorg
1 root 16 0 1564 480 456 S 0.0 0.0 0:01.09 init
2 root 34 19 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.04 ksoftirqd/0
3 root RT 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 watchdog/0
4 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.18 events/0
5 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 khelper
6 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kthread
8 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:01.14 kblockd/0
9 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:12.50 kacpid
86 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 1:10.61 kacpid-work-0
87 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:03.92 kacpid-work-1
88 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:02.18 kacpid-work-2
89 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:01.65 kacpid-work-3
90 root 11 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:01.14 kacpid-work-4
91 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.90 kacpid-work-5
92 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.68 kacpid-work-6
93 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.48 kacpid-work-7


The only "voluntary" app that I have open right now, for instance, is Konqueror, but the system is swapping endlessly.

Any idea what I should check? I don't see a way to change the virtual memory config anywhere in the desktop settings.

Thanks!

[sky]

Re: HD thrashing in Kubuntu 6.06

Hi,

You have a very high load average... Usually you should be less than 1.

It seems that the biggest consumer of processor time is acpi something, maybe you should try to add option noacpi at boot time and check. Or did you install some programs or change config ?

Cheers