15 Jan
2010
15 Jan
'10
5:05 p.m.
Hi,
2010/1/15 Chris G cl@isbd.net:
I've tried to analyse what's going on by running top (and 'w' and ps) in a console window while the system starts up but I really can't see anything obvious that's hogging any resource. One noticeable thing apart from the load average being so high is that my 8Gb of memory gets eaten up too, but there seem to be no particular processes using either lots of CPU or lots of memory.
ps auxwH | sort -k 6 -n
Take out H if you dont want to see all user mode threads.
Run this a few times to check for rapidly increasing PIDs.
HTH, Srdjan