On Wednesday 03 July 2002 06:07 am, you wrote: > > how much memory do you have? > > 256 meg RAM > > > is it shared video mem? > > Video card is an NVIDIA GeforceMX with 32 meg. > > > how much disk space do you have? (type df, and post it) > > It's a 20 gig hard drive. df yields: > > Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on > /dev/hde2 3283000 104844 3011384 4% / > none 127920 0 127920 0% /dev/shm > /dev/hde6 1007960 267132 689624 28% /home > /dev/hde1 8210880 4533952 3676928 56% /mnt/windows > /dev/hde5 7055648 2102708 4594524 32% /usr > > > also type cat /proc/interrupts and let us see that. > > CPU0 > 0: 649067 XT-PIC timer > 1: 10128 XT-PIC keyboard > 2: 0 XT-PIC cascade > 4: 143580 XT-PIC serial > 5: 25506 XT-PIC usb-uhci > 8: 1 XT-PIC rtc > 10: 215504 XT-PIC nvidia > 11: 27166 XT-PIC ide2 > 12: 11946 XT-PIC cmpci > 15: 83 XT-PIC ide1 > NMI: 0 > LOC: 0 > ERR: 0 > MIS: 0 > > > did you install (clean, format all linux partitions?) or Upgrade? > > It was an install, but I didn't format the /home directory (to keep my > data, of course). Fairly certain formatted everything else. > > > try running top as the first thing when you see the slowdown. my guess > > is no free hard drive space (in say /etc or /var), or a lost swap file. > > Will do that and report back on it. > > Thank you for that, my main problem has been just trying to think of how I > can figure out what's up. > > PJ no problem, but since I did not see anything "glaring out at me right there.... what does "free" say? and then are we sure it is in the OS and not the hardware? have you tried cpuburn or memtest86?
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