[Leaplist] Fedora 9 impressions so far...

[Fred Moore]

Fred Moore wrote:
> William A. Mahaffey III wrote:
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>> Fred Moore wrote:
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>>> BTW I just ran uptime on this desktop.
>>> <pasted>
>>> 05:53:20 up 246 days, 11:50,  2 users,  load average: 14.61, 14.57,
>>> 14.45
>>> </pasted>
>>>
>>> guess when I installed ubuntu 6.06.. It could have been a "deb net
>>> install", but just happened to have a ubuntu disk laying around.   Now
>>> guess how many email, reports I have written, web sites I have visited,
>>> and games I have played all on the same machine and the same Linux
>>> install..
>>> Fred
>>>   
>>>       
>> 14+ load average, pretty stout for a desktop :-). Mine is under 1 as I
>> write this. What's this puppy up to when that was taken ?
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> Don't actually recall but most times I am running
> gnome... its a hog compared to XFCE.  I should go back.. it is much faster,
> streaming audio to keep relaxed,
> I run a tunnel to the server,
> most likely had openoffice running, email, web etc.. I very seldom shut
> down tasks I use all the time. I don't like waiting..   But that doesn't
> cause any real loads as they sleep. 
>
> Its only a 1.8 ghz single core machine, with 1 gig ram..  But it serves
> me very well..   Guess I should look at loading, and would if things
> were running slow.. Fred
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Hay William.. your comments made me do some investigation.  I had 192
acroread tasks running.   some with low PIDs..  so they have been there
running for some time.   It is all old pdf's that I looked at a long
time ago, recognize some of the names.  One was from a few days ago..
looks like acroread is history till they fix this..  its back to xpdf..
  I killed all of them and my load is now between .03 and 1.4 doing
everything..

Thanks for pointing that out. since nothing was slow I didn't notice
it.   I guess I could have rebooted but thats just not the Linux way... 
besides uptime is everything.. It means you are learning to control your
own system..  htop is your friend here.. Thanks..again..  Fred

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