On Sat, 2003-08-16 at 02:59, Ron Stodden wrote: > Yes, I know this problem. You can avoid rebooting by: > > 1. Check that your swapfile is not full. If it is, generate a much > bigger one.
My swapfile is 1.5GB. Not likely to be the problem. > Tip: Use a console (Ctrl+Alt+F2), log in as root, and run top. > Swapfile stats are at the top. > This will then be there whenever you want it. whether KDE is running or not. > Don't run it from KDE, because of 2 below. Yes, thanks, I knew that. > 2. When things slow down do Ctrl+Alt+Backspace and relog on. > This is quick and will give you a new KDE and current applications setup. > Particularly in this case a new Mozilla/Galeon, which in my case seems > to trigger the slowdown problem. Not practical. Besides, I use GNOME. Can you check and see if the problem is linked directly to network transfers, as it seems to be for me ATM? Any type of heavy network transfer slows the system down. -- adamw
