[TriLUG] Computer Getting Slow

Jon Carnes jonc at nc.rr.com
Thu Aug 21 12:51:58 EDT 2003


Also, you might want to post the results of:
  ps aux

It would be interesting to see what processes are running and how much
processor they are using.

On Thu, 2003-08-21 at 10:58, crimsun at fungus.sh.nu wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 10:19:48AM -0400, Henry S. Huntsberry wrote:
> > home, as of about Wednesday of las week, seems to be very slow as it srarts 
> > and an opens any applications.  I noticed that the CD burner seems to be 
> > acting funny as well.  My computer at home is used by my family and the 
> > default is a gnome session.  I used to be able to simply put a blank CD into 
> > the CD and it would pop up with a //Burn screen that made it simple to burn a 
> > CD.  Now it is very slow to open and when I try to burn a CD it just hangs.
> 
> Would you post a snippet from the end of your /var/log/messages when the
> system begins acting strangely?
> 
> ]# tail /var/log/messages
> 
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