Unlikely to be your problem, but I once accidentally turned on the "act as
sound server" option in either KDE or Gnome control panels, resulting in
similar syptoms to what your describing.
-Paul R
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Mark Johnson
Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2001 5:34 PM
To: LinuxNewbie (E-mail)
Subject: [newbie] System is becoming slower
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?
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