d...@dicksteffens.com said: > My machine opens programs slowly. It used to be that I'd double click on a > spreadsheet icon and LibreOffice would open it in at most a couple of > seconds. Now it takes several. What steps should I take to figure out what's > causing this slow down?
This is usually one of two things: memory usage hard drive errors Run 'dmesg' and check the output for drive related messages. Use 'free' and 'top' (sort by memory) to see what memory usage looks like. I don't know about other browsers, but Firefox will grow to consume enormous amounts of memory. If you leave it running for days it can use up all of your RAM. I typically kill it and restart it daily. :-/ _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
