system very slow. cpu at 98% most of the time

[yhotg]

hi, hope someone has any idea to help


i did cat /proc/cpuinfo:

processor : 0
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 15
model : 2
model name : Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 2.00GHz
stepping : 7
cpu MHz : 1999.940
cache size : 128 KB
fdiv_bug : no
hlt_bug : no
f00f_bug : no
coma_bug : no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 2
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe up pebs bts cid
bogomips : 4004.23
clflush size : 64


i tried to run:
kubuntu 8,10 rc (impossible slow)
kubuntu 8.04 (very very slow)
xubuntu 8.04 (slow to very slow)

yesterday i was trying from live cd:
xubuntu 8:10 (slow slow slow)
opengeu 8.04.1 (better, but not much)

it's the problem on the cpu?
it's there something i can do besides throwing the box?
i need that thing to work with the programs we r used to have
amarok, kopete, firefox, kaffeine, ktorrent.. ohh! i need it to run skype too!!
(i think that's mostly what i need, and it just need to work for a little more than a month)

well, thank u

[Miradwyn]

Re: system very slow. cpu at 98% most of the time

What is consuming the cpu cycles? Run top in a terminal. How much ram and swap? Run free -m in a terminal.

[yhotg]

Re: system very slow. cpu at 98% most of the time

ohh i knew i had forget something.

ram: 503.49 MB
swap: 1.86 GB

free -m:
total used free shared buffers cach
Mem: 503 468 35 0 13 252
-/+ buffers/cache: 201 301
Swap: 1906 38 1867

top:
(i can't paste it here 'cos is on another computer)
firefox is mostly on the top around 60 or 70% cpu
but then is gets down,
xorg is always amid the 3 first places
ktorrent too
amarok
(but again i can't copy it here, and when i am connected to internet is impossible slow. and not always because firefox)
i know it's not much information.
but it helps?
thanks

[Nos4ah2]

Re: system very slow. cpu at 98% most of the time

Do you have an nvidia graphics controller?

[yhotg]

Re: system very slow. cpu at 98% most of the time

yap.

with the driver from nvidia.

[Nos4ah2]

Re: system very slow. cpu at 98% most of the time

Make sure that you're running 177.80 and then run this from a command line:
nvidia-settings -a InitialPixmapPlacement=2 -a GlyphCache=1

You should see immediate improvement.



If it works just add it to a script and start at boot.

[yhotg]

Re: system very slow. cpu at 98% most of the time

sorry but how i do to make sure i am running 177.80?

and i don't know how to wirte scripts or how to start scripts at boot....

[dibl]

Re: system very slow. cpu at 98% most of the time

Do Alt-F2 "nvidia-settings" with no quote marks. If you get an Nvidia utility that lets you change the X server settings, then it will say which driver version it is.

If problems, maybe this will help:

http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/inde...opic=3098769.0

[yhotg]

Re: system very slow. cpu at 98% most of the time

great . thank you.

it says:
Operating System: Linux-x86
NVIDIA Driver Version:169.12

and now? how i get the other one? 177.80?

hey, i did what you said on those 2 links.!! It definitely looks nicer than before. Really! WOW!
And it is a little faster, not much, but i am writing from this computer now.

i can copy now my top:

top - 01:02:23 up 15 min, 1 user, load average: 1.58, 2.18, 1.66
Tasks: 110 total, 2 running, 108 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu(s): 51.5%us, 15.2%sy, 0.0%ni, 30.0%id, 1.0%wa, 0.3%hi, 2.0%si, 0.0%st
Mem: 515576k total, 509584k used, 5992k free, 13916k buffers
Swap: 1951824k total, 39800k used, 1912024k free, 236900k cached

PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
5848 liame 20 0 104m 40m 19m R 34.9 8.1 4:51.28 ktorrent
6093 liame 20 0 186m 92m 24m S 11.8 18.3 2:44.08 firefox
4992 root 20 0 77572 43m 7092 S 6.3 8.6 1:11.57 Xorg
5869 liame 20 0 30044 10m 7772 S 3.3 2.2 0:00.86 klipper
5749 liame 20 0 33308 15m 12m S 0.7 3.0 0:09.24 kdesktop
5751 liame 20 0 37016 18m 14m S 0.7 3.7 0:13.98 kicker
6062 liame 20 0 33104 13m 11m S 0.7 2.8 0:05.62 konsole
6079 liame 20 0 2308 1116 852 R 0.7 0.2 0:04.22 top
5820 liame 20 0 21036 6800 4964 S 0.3 1.3 0:01.50 artsd
1 root 20 0 2844 1692 544 S 0.0 0.3 0:01.82 init
2 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kthreadd
3 root RT -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 migration/0
4 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.02 ksoftirqd/0


I was looking for a little while to the top and ktorrent and firefox were around 40% cpu
and xorg under them between the 20 and 30 %
this is the free -m:

total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 503 475 28 0 10 182
-/+ buffers/cache: 282 220
Swap: 1906 38 1867

what else can i do?

ahh about the nvidia driver, now it is:
173.14.12
it got nearer to that 177.something.......
it's alright?
what should i do?

and ohhhhh, so very much thank you!!!