On Monday 15 Jul 2002 9:45 pm, you wrote:
> On Monday 15 Jul 2002 9:12 pm, Anne Wilson 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, but it persists.

> > How, using Process Management, can I identify the process(es) causing my
> > problem, so that I can hang up?
> >
> > Anne
>
> Just open KDE system guard and you will see the % usage of each
> application.

Unfortunately these tools only help if you know what to look for.  I'm lost.

>
> Alternatively on the console just type 'top'

Again, without knowing what I'm looking for it's difficult.  The memory usage 
is slowly creeping up, but here is what I'm seeing:

 2095 root      14 -10 52812  11M  2276 S <   1.9  2.2   0:33 X
 3395 anne      15   0  9916 9916  7496 R     1.1  1.9   0:01 konsole
 3423 anne      11   0  1036 1036   812 R     0.1  0.2   0:00 top
    1 root       8   0   504  504   440 S     0.0  0.0   0:07 init
    2 root       9   0     0    0     0 SW    0.0  0.0   0:00 keventd
    3 root       9   0     0    0     0 SW    0.0  0.0   0:00 kapmd
    4 root      19  19     0    0     0 SWN   0.0  0.0   0:00 ksoftirqd_CPU0
    5 root       9   0     0    0     0 SW    0.0  0.0   0:00 kswapd
    6 root       9   0     0    0     0 SW    0.0  0.0   0:00 bdflush
    7 root       9   0     0    0     0 SW    0.0  0.0   0:00 kupdated
    8 root      -1 -20     0    0     0 SW<   0.0  0.0   0:00 mdrecoveryd
   66 root       9   0   892  892   692 S     0.0  0.1   0:00 devfsd
  220 root       9   0     0    0     0 SW    0.0  0.0   0:00 khubd
 1010 root       9   0     0    0     0 SW    0.0  0.0   0:00 eth0
 1092 rpc        9   0   532  532   440 S     0.0  0.1   0:00 portmap
 1115 root       9   0   592  592   476 S     0.0  0.1   0:00 syslogd
 1124 root       9   0  1108 1108   428 S     0.0  0.2   0:00 klogd

Any suggestions?

Anne

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