et wrote: >let me jump in and say this sounds to me like "named" is mis-configured and >her DNS is looking for the file on the internet, as long as killing jabber >did not cure it. >can you go to the "K" menu, > Applications, > Monitoring, > Process >managment, highlight ( By clicking on) any process called "named" > then on >the top menu, Signal, > Kill. do this until all processes called named are >gone. and let me know. there are a few services that when not properly >configured can search all over before looking on the hard drive of your >computer for some thing, and named is one of them. > > >On Tuesday 16 July 2002 06:08 am, you wrote: > > >>On Tuesday 16 Jul 2002 7:02 am, you wrote: >> >> >>>>The Mem used is creeping up all the time. >>>> >>>> >>>Normally, that's OK as well, since Linux wants to use all the available >>>memory -- what's not active for programs is used for disk and for cache, >>>which is a good idea, since unused RAM is wasted. >>> >>> >>OK >> >> >> >>>But having the system slow down to a crawl is certainly not normal. Some >>>people on the list suggest the offender may be jabberd but I'm not sure >>>that's something you installed (do a ps aux | grep jabber). jabberd is >>>something that is known to gradually swallow RAM -- on my machine it >>>was eating about 200 megs (out of 256) after about 3 days. >>> >>> >>anne 4391 0.0 0.1 1792 596 pts/1 R 10:06 0:00 grep jabber >> >>I didn't think this was there - I don't use an instant messenger. >> >> >> >>>>Drastic it may be, but I may have to. Could you elaborate, please? >>>> >>>> >>>Well, you just click on 'logout' from KDE which will kill all KDE and >>>X related processes, leaving you at a console shell prompt (if you start >>>kde with 'startkde'). >>> >>> >>Logout appears to stop X briefly and then goes straight back to the KDE >>login. There i s a long black screen delay before switching to the KDE >>login splash. The first part seems OK but there is a long delay at the >>loading the desktop - almost a minute - and the panel and restoring session >>icons are there a very long time, too. >> >>It does seem to be X, I think, as once a Konsole is opened it responds fast >>enough, and so does text editor. >> >> >> >>>>The KDE startup was extremely slow and everything else has been slow >>>>since. >>>> >>>>The system is almost unusable. >>>> >>>> >>>Ouch. How long has it been since you restarted? >>> >>> >> 10:10am up 13:12, >> >>Whatever it is, it is being saved/restarted on bootup. Last night it was >>taking almost a minute to open a folder. This morning it is slightly >>better, at about 20 secs. >> >>I don't ask for the session to be re-started, but I suppose that the >>message may not be what it seems? >> >> >>I think the trouble may have started when I was trying to add my SCSI film >>scanner. Afterwards I switched the scanner off, and then told kudzu to >>remove the configuration, so there shouldn't be anything left. >> >>Apart from that, I've run out of ideas. >> >>Anne >> >> > > > Does Anne run any windblows OS's.
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