On Monday 15 Jul 2002 9:33 pm, you wrote: > > During the evening my machine has got slower and slower, and now it takes > > almost a minute to open any application. I have logged out, and even > > halted, > > Hmm. There might be an application or task that's swallowed a lot of > RAM on your system. I would run 'top' in an xterm or konsole and see > if there's anything that is eating up a good deal of RAM.
To the untutored eye everything looks reasonable. 64 processes, 62 sleeping, 2 running load average: 0.02 0.03, 0.00 CPU states: 0.5% user, 0.1% system, 0.0% nice, 99.0% idle Mem: 513800K av, 295892K used, 217900K free, 0K shrd, 15604K buff The Mem used is creeping up all the time. > > Sometimes it's a good idea to logout and log back in - in other words > getting completely out of X and back to console mode, and restarting > X. Ordinarily, this action is a pretty drastic one. > Drastic it may be, but I may have to. Could you elaborate, please? > > During the bootup messages I briefly saw something to the effect that a > > compressed image had been found and was being uncompressed. Is this > > That's normal - the kernel image is compressed to save space. By that > comment, I assume you rebooted your machine - now did it again start to > slow down? The KDE startup was extremely slow and everything else has been slow since. The system is almost unusable. Anne
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