On Nov 15, 2007, at 11:29 AM, Kevin Windham wrote:
On Nov 15, 2007, at 8:26 AM, Mark Spidle wrote:
If you are running low on RAM, you can tell this pretty easily by
using top in the terminal. Just leave a terminal window open and
run top in it. When you start having the massive slowdown, look at
the pageouts. If it's increasing, that means you've run out of RAM
and the OS is compensating by using disk. That will easily cause
the symptoms you're seeing.
Pageout metrics alone aren't going to be telling enough. Especially
since most of the pages you'd be dealing with wouldn't get paged out
through the page files anyway.
-dhan
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Dan Shoop
Computer Scientist
iWiring / U.S. Technical Services
