Computer Half As Fast As It Should Be

[redbikemaster]

OK, this is something I haven't heard of. I login to my Ubuntu 11.04 and after a while it starts to bog down. It's not extremely fast, but at a processor speed of 2.2Ghz and with 2 GB of RAM it shouldn't be sluggish.

I opened Terminal, ran 'top', and got this:


Tasks: 197 total, 12 running, 184 sleeping, 0 stopped, 1 zombie
Cpu(s): 2.3%us, 97.4%sy, 0.3%ni, 0.0%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st
Mem: 2060468k total, 1036576k used, 1023892k free, 98288k buffers
Swap: 2095100k total, 0k used, 2095100k free, 453112k cached

PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
3242 -username- 20 0 12908 1724 1660 R 23.2 0.1 0:03.70 pagein
3187 -username- 20 0 12908 1728 1660 R 22.8 0.1 0:14.93 pagein
2385 -username- 20 0 12908 1728 1660 R 6.3 0.1 0:40.38 pagein
2403 -username- 20 0 12908 1728 1660 R 6.3 0.1 0:37.46 pagein
2446 -username- 20 0 12908 1728 1660 R 6.3 0.1 0:32.05 pagein
2460 -username- 20 0 12908 1728 1660 R 6.3 0.1 0:29.11 pagein
2332 -username- 20 0 12908 1688 1624 R 6.0 0.1 0:50.09 pagein
2422 -username- 20 0 12908 1728 1660 R 6.0 0.1 0:35.79 pagein
2474 -username- 20 0 12908 1728 1660 R 6.0 0.1 0:28.45 pagein
2487 -username- 20 0 12908 1728 1660 R 6.0 0.1 0:28.02 pagein
1976 -username- 9 -11 157m 4936 3568 S 1.7 0.2 0:10.10 pulseaudio
3093 -username- 20 0 246m 53m 20m S 1.7 2.7 0:46.61 chrome
2631 root 20 0 45656 26m 8088 S 0.7 1.3 0:29.33 Xorg
2358 -username- 39 19 39356 23m 3408 R 0.3 1.2 0:00.74 apt-check
3207 -username- 20 0 177m 39m 20m S 0.3 1.9 0:03.08 compiz
3244 -username- 20 0 92880 13m 10m S 0.3 0.7 0:00.47 gnome-terminal
3302 -username- 20 0 2628 1152 840 R 0.3 0.1 0:00.05 top

Please help! This is the third problem in half a week that I've had with 11.04! If this keeps up, I'll have no choice but to install Windows XP! I don't want to do that!!!

[sanderd17]

OK, this is something I haven't heard of. I login to my Ubuntu 11.04 and after a while it starts to bog down. It's not extremely fast, but at a processor speed of 2.2Ghz and with 2 GB of RAM it shouldn't be sluggish

Please help! This is the third problem in half a week that I've had with 11.04! If this keeps up, I'll have no choice but to install Windows XP! I don't want to do that!!!


What's that "pagein" command? kan you do


killall pagein

and see what happens?

Memory and swap seem ok, but the CPU is used too much by that weird command.

[redbikemaster]

Those commands won't die! I tried it before I posted, but they just won't die.

[sanderd17]

Those commands won't die! I tried it before I posted, but they just won't die.


I don't know it then, seriously, even google doesn't know about that thread.

[redbikemaster]

Thanks for your input, though.

[zealibib slaughter]

I found this http://osdir.com/ml/ubuntu-bugs/2011-04/msg46097.html hope it helps some.

[redbikemaster]

I started it back up today (I shut it off at night for noise reasons) and it wasn't doing it today. Just yesterday.

[redbikemaster]

Quick update: I haven't had this exact problem again.

[redbikemaster]

Still no pagein problem, though I would like to know what that was.