Xorg slow down rquires a kill

2008-04-24 Thread Michael Havens
I've noticed that after about 2-3 weeks of not shutting off my computer that things grind to a halt and that I need to kill Xorg. Is there anything I can do or is it just my old k6 processor and I'll have to live with it? (yes I'm still running my computer that was built in 97 - I've

Re: Xorg slow down rquires a kill

2008-04-24 Thread Kevin Faulkner
On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 10:10:46AM +, Michael Havens wrote: I've noticed that after about 2-3 weeks of not shutting off my computer that things grind to a halt and that I need to kill Xorg. Is there anything I can do or is it just my old k6 processor and I'll have to live with it?

Re: Xorg slow down rquires a kill

2008-04-24 Thread Matt Graham
After a long battle with technology, Kevin Faulkner wrote: On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 10:10:46AM +, Michael Havens wrote: I've noticed that after about 2-3 weeks of not shutting off my computer that things grind to a halt and that I need to kill Xorg. Is there anything I can do or is it just

Re: Xorg slow down rquires a kill

2008-04-24 Thread Michael Havens
okay. I'll post top before I have to do it again this is what it says now though: [EMAIL PROTECTED] free total used free sharedbuffers cached Mem:385728 357416 28312 0 29736 157252 -/+ buffers/cache: 170428

Re: Xorg slow down rquires a kill

2008-04-24 Thread Dale Farnsworth
Michael wrote: I've noticed that after about 2-3 weeks of not shutting off my computer that things grind to a halt and that I need to kill Xorg. Is there anything I can do or is it just my old k6 processor and I'll have to live with it? Most likely it's firefox that is growing and using up

Re: Xorg slow down rquires a kill

2008-04-24 Thread Michael Havens
it wasn't created so what I did was : touch swap swapon swap 512000 swapon swap swap swap noauto 0 0 then fstab became: # Pluggable devices are handled by uDev, they are not in fstab /dev/hda1 / ext3 defaults,noatime 1 1 none /proc proc

Re: Xorg slow down rquires a kill

2008-04-24 Thread Michael Havens
On Thursday 24 April 2008 9:06 pm, Michael Havens wrote: /mnt/swap swap swap noauto 0 0 There is a file called /mnt/swap. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ls -l /mnt/swap -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 2008-04-24 20:54 /mnt/swap hmm should I be concerned about the permissions?