Letters lag behind my keyboard strokes. Intrepid 32bit KDE 4.2

[Eberhard Roloff]

Steven Vollom wrote:

> steven at Yesua:~$ uptime
>  20:05:14 up  4:36,  1 user,  load average: 1.11, 1.12, 1.09
> steven at Yesua:~$
> 
> How do I understand what these numbers mean?
> 

Hi Steven,

from "man uptime"
...Load averages are not normalized for the number of CPUs in  a 
system,  so  a load  average  of 1 means a single CPU system is loaded 
all the time while on a 4 CPU system it means it was idle 75% of the 
time....

So:
Imho, this means that your system CPU is fully loaded ALL the time (if 
your happen to be working on a one CPU system).

So you better use "top" from a shell to see what the "top consumers" of 
your CPU and Mem percentages are.

Depending on the "top" results, maybe you should refrain from KDE with 
this machine and use xfce instead?

Should you feel an urge to try it, iirc:
"sudo apt-get install xfce-desktop"

Kind regards
Eberhard

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