Unix pc sluggishness when switching windows
Thaddeus P. Floryan
thad at public.BTR.COM
Wed Feb 6 23:07:17 AEST 1991
In article <979 at gnosys.svle.ma.us> gst at gnosys.svle.ma.us (Gary S. Trujillo)
writes:
>[...]
>Yup. It's a memory leak of some sort in the window manager. Do a "ps -el"
>and take a look at the memory size numbers |
> v
> 1 S 0 17268 1 3 27 20 14d 18: 13 5af68 w4 2:36 wmgr
>
>I just killed and restarted wmgr recently, so not much memory has been
>consumed so far (I've seen the first number as high as 80 or 90). Let's
>see what I get if I kill and restart wmgr again:
>
> 1 S 0 20490 1 6 27 20 1e5 6: 12 5af68 w4 0:04 wmgr
>
Weird. What is it that you're doing such that the wmgr uses so much time?
Reason I ask is that my "main" system has been up nearly 3 months continuously,
is used extremely heavily by multiple users, and shows nothing like what you
describe; has 3.5MB RAM, running 3.51,, and the load is 0.03 with:
thadlabs ksh 24989/24990> date
Wed Feb 6 03:53:59 PST 1991
thadlabs ksh 24989/24990> uptime
up 86 days 0:17:52 booted Mon Nov 12 03:36:12 1990
thadlabs ksh 24989/24990> who -b
. system boot Nov 12 03:44
thadlabs ksh 24989/24990> ps -el
F S UID PID PPID C PRI NI ADR SZ:RSZ WCHAN TTY TIME COMD
3 S 0 0 0255 0 20 53 0: 0 251bc ? 120354:56 swapper
1 S 0 1 0 3 49 20 56 6: 9 70900 ? 7:37 init
3 S 0 2 0 3 1 20 54 48: 0 4a1e0 ? 0:05 pagedaemon
3 S 0 3 0 3 3 20 55 0: 0 59770 ? 144:20 windaemon
1 S 102 19821 1 3 27 20 218 27: 5 5ae78 w1 0:07 ksh
1 S 0 22461 1 3 27 20 219 6: 10 1d920 ? 0:01 uugetty
1 S 0 183 1 3 27 20 1ba 6: 0 5ca14 001 0:01 uugetty
1 S 99 24989 204 3 40 20 36a 3: 0 4a410 p0 0:00 sl
1 S 102 24990 24989250 40 20 1e2 28: 6 4a480 p0 3:21 ksh
1 S 0 117 1 3 26 20 fe 10: 0 35ef5a ? 0:00 telnetd
1 S 0 97 1 3 28 20 10d 5: 0 330194 ? 0:00 rasdaemo
1 S 0 119 1 3 26 20 10f 16: 0 35ed5a ? 0:00 ftpd
1 S 0 121 1 3 26 20 13b 10: 5 35ea2e ? 47:45 rwhod
1 S 0 123 1 3 26 20 147 12: 0 35ebda ? 0:00 fingerd
1 S 0 18401 1 3 27 20 1c6 6: 9 5cb0e ? 0:00 uugetty
1 S 0 159 1 3 27 20 172 50: 21 5af18 w3 6:02 ph
1 S 0 166 1 3 27 20 186 5: 0 5af68 w4 0:08 wmgr
1 S 0 172 1 3 49 20 18e 20: 12 1eeec w5 151:26 smgr
1 S 0 184 1 3 27 20 1a3 6: 0 5ca6e ? 0:00 uugetty
1 S 0 179 1 4 49 20 1b3 4: 5 70900 ? 6:58 loadavgd
1 R 102 22470 24990 88 82 20 16d 7: 10 p0 0:03 ps
1 S 71 17314 1 3 26 20 31c 8: 10 4034e ? 0:03 lpsched
1 S 102 29446 1 3 49 25 162 4: 8 70900 w1 227:33 sysinfo
1 S 99 204 1 3 26 20 1f7 11: 10 4ab15 ? 0:03 listen
1 S 102 19831 1 3 49 25 1a9 4: 9 70900 w1 40:10 sysinfo
1 S 0 24248 1 3 26 20 28f 10: 0 35e05a ? 0:00 rexecd
1 S 0 24259 1 3 26 20 319 10: 0 35de5a ? 0:00 rlogind
1 S 0 24337 1 3 26 20 138 10: 4 35da5a ? 0:00 rshd
thadlabs ksh 24989/24990> ps -ef
UID PID PPID C STIME TTY TIME COMMAND
root 0 0255 Nov 12 ? 120355:02 swapper
root 1 0 3 Nov 12 ? 7:37 init
root 2 0 3 Nov 12 ? 0:05 pagedaemon
root 3 0 3 Nov 12 ? 144:20 windaemon
thad 19821 1 3 Feb 4 w1 0:07 ksh
root 22461 1 3 03:50:16 ? 0:01 uugetty
root 183 1 3 Nov 12 001 0:01 uugetty
listen 24989 204 3 Jan 9 p0 0:00 sl
thad 24990 24989 10 Jan 9 p0 3:21 ksh
root 117 1 3 Nov 12 ? 0:00 telnetd
root 97 1 3 Nov 12 ? 0:00 rasdaemon
root 119 1 3 Nov 12 ? 0:00 ftpd
root 121 1 3 Nov 12 ? 47:45 rwhod
root 123 1 3 Nov 12 ? 0:00 fingerd
root 18401 1 3 Feb 3 ? 0:00 uugetty
root 159 1 3 Nov 12 w3 6:02 ph
root 166 1 3 Nov 12 w4 0:08 wmgr
root 172 1 3 Nov 12 w5 151:26 smgr
root 184 1 3 Nov 12 ? 0:00 uugetty
root 179 1 3 Nov 12 ? 6:58 loadavgd
thad 22471 24990181 03:54:33 p0 0:03 ps
lp 17314 1 3 Jan 1 ? 0:03 lpsched
thad 29446 1 6 Jan 14 w1 227:33 sysinfo
listen 204 1 3 Nov 12 ? 0:03 listen
thad 19831 1 6 Feb 4 w1 40:11 sysinfo
root 24248 1 3 Jan 9 ? 0:00 rexecd
root 24259 1 3 Jan 9 ? 0:00 rlogind
root 24337 1 3 Jan 9 ? 0:00 rshd
Thad Floryan [ thad at btr.com (OR) {decwrl, mips, fernwood}!btr!thad ]
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