Re: What could be causing a slowdown across the board? - "Picture 3.png" yEnc (1/1) [37K]

John Drako <jbravo556@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> On Sun, 18 May 2008 03:51:25 -0400, Jamie Kahn Genet wrote
> (in article <1ih5ia5.1u2fps74qwq2dN%jamiekg@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>):
> 
> > Jolly Roger <jollyroger@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> > 
> >> In article <1ih56y8.texzoy1x7io7zN%jamiekg@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
> >> jamiekg@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 (Jamie Kahn Genet) wrote:
> >> 
> >>> <billy@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> >>> 
> >>>> Gregory Weston <uce@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> writes:
> >>>> 
> >>>>> jamiekg@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 (Jamie Kahn Genet) wrote:
> >>>>> 
> >>>>>> I have enough HD space (little less that 100GB out of 500), CPU
usage
> >>>>>> is nowhere near maxed, memory usage is not maxed, drive activity
is
> >>>>>> nothing to write home about.
> >>>>> 
> >>>>> What's the output of the command "cd /var/vm; ls -l" in a
terminal?
> >>>> 
> >>>> I'm curious how Jamie is measuring his system's resources usaage.
> >>>> 
> >>>> One convenient method, yet just as accurate as the command line
tools,
> >>>> because it can be clearly observed while a hang occurs, is a
utility
> >>>> named MenuMeters.  Among other things, it can display memory paging
as
> >>>> it occurs.
> >>>> 
> >>>> http://www.ragingmenace.com/software/menumeters/
> >>> 
> >>> I've tried that but prefer iStat Menus
> >>> <http://islayer.com/index.php?op=item&id=28>
or just good old
Activity
> >>> Monitor.
> >>> 
> >>> Total CPU usage has been as little as 15% when I've had these
slowdowns.
> >>> As I said before memory usage and disk activity are also fairly low.
The
> >>> couple dozen or so programs I run constantly are not CPU or RAM
hogs,
> >>> except for BOINC - but that only runs after a few minutes inactivity
so
> >>> cannot be blamed.
> >> 
> >> And pageouts aren't high when this is going on?
> > 
> > No, nothing out of the ordinary.
> > 
> > It still _feels_ like overheating to me (the fact that it's
intermittent
> > and a general slowdown), but the only high temperature is the power
> > supply (81ºc right now), everything else is under 60ºc. e.g. CPU A is
> > only at 43ºc at the moment. I'm no expert, but that seems normal. How
> > hot do other people's iMacs get?
> > 
> > Things DO heat up more once an app like BOINC or Handbrake is working.
> > But the slowdowns have happened when CPU usage is FAR from maxed.
> > 
> > Could the the fact that this Mac is running BOINC (i.e. 100% CPU
usage)
> > nonstop while I'm away from it be causing trouble? Anyone here leave
> > their iMacs at 100% for extended periods? How are they handling it?
> 
> That Power Supply looks awfully hot.
> 
> I took a screen shot of the temperatures of the same iMac model for you
> under normal load - as in nothing maxing out any cores on the system.
> 
> I didn't feel like typing so I'm attaching the PNG.

This isn't a binary group and I'm not even using a binary capable
newsreader. Couldn't you just type in a few numbers? Also you're really
going to piss people off if you start posting binaries to text only
groups.

Regards,
 Jamie Kahn Genet

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