On 08/13/2009 07:44 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Thu, 2009-08-13 at 15:59 -0400, Jim wrote: > >> F11/X86_64. >> Thunderbird, Firefox, everything is being slowed down. >> Running ps aux give me this , >> >> root 2141 1.5 24.0 1349116 243972 tty1 Ss+ Aug09 95:17 >> /usr/bin/X -br -nolisten tcp :0 vt1 -auth /var/run/xauth/A:0-rJsTly >> >> mickey 2325 0.8 5.7 1048920 58852 ? Sl Aug09 49:08 >> /usr/bin/plasma-desktop >> >> These are the two that seem to be taking up a lot of time. >> Any Ideals ? >> > Another thing to look at is memory and swapping. Use the top(1) command and see if there might be either a memory or cpu hog. Over the years I've found that lack of memory is one of the biggest causes of system slowness. The vmstat(8) command may also show give you some useful informaition.
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