[newbie] Strange system slowness

2004-01-31 Thread Paul
Hi all, Since about a week (since the last massive outbreak of virusses?) I sometimes experience a very strange system slowness in responding. Not constantly, but sometimes with switching desktops it can take upto 10 seconds before the windows are redrawn. Programs start up very slowly then,

Re: [newbie] Strange system slowness

2004-01-31 Thread Charlie
On Sat, 31 Jan 2004 07:10 pm, many eyes noted that Paul wrote: Hi all, Since about a week (since the last massive outbreak of virusses?) I sometimes experience a very strange system slowness in responding. Not constantly, but sometimes with switching desktops it can take upto 10 seconds

Re: [newbie] Strange system slowness

2004-01-31 Thread Paul
On 01/31/2004 11:59 AM, Charlie wrote: Run top and see if there is something running in the background. Tried that and found nothing strange there. I did find something though. I run a program called mailfilter just before I pull e-mail. That checks the headers of all the mails on the server