On Thu, 2006-03-30 at 11:45 +0100, N.Pauli wrote: > Dear All, > > All of a sudden my machine has become incredibly slow to boot up and to > launch anything - boot up took over 5 minutes and launching an app like > Mozilla or OpenOffice can take just as long. All the while the harddisk drive > light is burning constantly. It is as if there is some process that never > completes, takes a long time to time out and restarts itself whenever I > launch an app. Once I'm in, apps seem to run fairly normally. I've looked at > 'top' and can't see any culprit there. I had this happen once before and it > was solved by making sure that nothing was plugged in to a usb port while > booting up or even logging on. The last significant things I have done prior > to this happening do a normal update and upgrade using Synaptic and install > Liferea. > > Can anybody give me any clues on where I can start looking to resolve this? > The machine is a 1100 Mhz Intel Celeron with 256 Mb RAM so it shouldn't be > struggling. I'm running Debian GNU/Linux testing / unstable and the > 2.6.12-1-386 kernel. > > Thanks, > Nigel > > -- > Nigel Pauli > Network Manager > St. John's School, Northwood >
Just an idea, but you might look into HDD-trouble. See what "hdparm -tT /dev/..." says. See what "smartctl -a /dev/..." says (good explanation can be found here: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/6983). Maybe a monitor for disk activity can be useful too (gkrellm for example shows activity and speed). Good luck Philippe De Ryck -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
