Mark Johnson wrote:
>
> I installed 7.2 on a K6 200 w/ 128MB and 10G 5400rpm drive. I was dubious
> that linux could run on such a system, but it actually ran way better than
> expected until now. Now having been used everyday for about a month things
> are getting progressively slower. Whenever I'm running Konquerer it seems to
> be just beating the hell out of my HD. Sometimes when I go to logout nothing
> happens I have to actually power down the computer - (I guess I could just
> kill X from the command line?). It's taking forever to boot up and to
> startup applications.
>
> If this was windows I would say that these are symptoms of a fragmented HD.
> Does the HD get fragmented in Linux too?
>
> What should I do short of a reformat and install to freshen things up?
Sounds like your /var might be getting full (is it a separate
partition). You might want to delete the zipped /var/log messages and
then adjust chron so that it rotates the logs more often.
