Dag deFrysk,
Hartelijk dank voor je reactie.
Ook op het terminalvenster moest ik weer lang wachten.
Ik heb 'top' gestart en even later starte ik OpenOffice Tekstverwerker.
De reactie van 'top' zie je hieronder.
chrisschuur@chrisschuur-desktop:~$ top
top - 18:07:12 up 10 min, 2 users, load average: 0.01, 0.15, 0.14
top - 18:08:32 up 11 min, 2 users, load average: 0.00, 0.11, 0.12
Tasks: 96 total, 1 running, 95 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu(s): 3.0%us, 1.0%sy, 0.0%ni, 96.0%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st
Mem: 515840k total, 372008k used, 143832k free, 55212k buffers
Swap: 1485972k total, 0k used, 1485972k free, 192900k cached
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
top - 18:08:37 up 11 min, 2 users, load average: 0.00, 0.11, 0.12
top - 18:08:40 up 11 min, 2 users, load average: 0.00, 0.10, 0.12
Tasks: 96 total, 3 running, 93 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu(s): 4.0%us, 0.7%sy, 0.0%ni, 95.3%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st
Mem: 515840k total, 372068k used, 143772k free, 55228k buffers
Swap: 1485972k total, 0k used, 1485972k free, 192908k cached
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
4929 root 16 0 162m 11m 5552 R 1.7 2.3 0:05.71 Xorg
5171 chrissch 16 0 17824 10m 7476 R 1.0 2.0 0:00.58 metacity
5461 chrissch 15 0 91832 21m 11m S 0.7 4.2 0:00.83 gnome-terminal
5173 chrissch 15 0 42588 17m 12m S 0.3 3.4 0:01.52 gnome-panel
top - 18:08:40 up 11 min, 2 users, load average: 0.00, 0.10, 0.12
Tasks: 96 total, 2 running, 94 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu(s): 58.3%us, 0.0%sy, 0.0%ni, 41.7%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st
Mem: 515840k total, 372068k used, 143772k free, 55228k buffers
Swap: 1485972k total, 0k used, 1485972k free, 192908k cached
4 root 34 19 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.01 ksoftirqd/0
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
4929 root 16 0 162m 11m 5552 R 40.7 2.3 0:05.76 Xorg
5171 chrissch 15 0 17824 10m 7476 S 16.3 2.0 0:00.60 metacity
1 root 18 0 2948 1852 532 S 0.0 0.4 0:01.10 init
top - 18:08:40 up 11 min, 2 users, load average: 0.00, 0.10, 0.12
Tasks: 96 total, 3 running, 93 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu(s): 87.5%us, 12.5%sy, 0.0%ni, 0.0%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st
Mem: 515840k total, 372068k used, 143772k free, 55228k buffers
Swap: 1485972k total, 0k used, 1485972k free, 192916k cached
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
4929 root 16 0 162m 11m 5552 R 53.5 2.3 0:05.80 Xorg
5171 chrissch 15 0 17824 10m 7476 S 26.7 2.0 0:00.62 metacity
5507 chrissch 15 0 2360 1144 876 R 13.4 0.2 0:00.32 top
top - 18:08:40 up 11 min, 2 users, load average: 0.00, 0.10, 0.12
top - 18:08:40 up 11 min, 2 users, load average: 0.00, 0.10, 0.12
top - 18:08:40 up 11 min, 2 users, load average: 0.00, 0.10, 0.12
top - 18:14:33 up 17 min, 2 users, load average: 0.11, 0.08, 0.09
Tasks: 98 total, 1 running, 97 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu(s): 9.3%us, 1.0%sy, 0.0%ni, 89.7%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st
Mem: 515840k total, 477764k used, 38076k free, 56016k buffers
Swap: 1485972k total, 0k used, 1485972k free, 283076k cached
Ik begrijp een klein beetje van wat 'top' zegt over de toestand en het lijkt me niet verontrustend.