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> Up until about yesterday, my Linux was behaving very nicely, loading up in
> record time. Now, it seems to have slowed down quite considerably, making
> the Windows loading very fast by comparison.
Hello namesake.
When things slowdown as you say at boottime it is normaly the conciquence of
having misconfigured some or other file, in that case check out your log
files, /var/log/messages possably, check /etc/syslog.conf to see which one
is used.
fsck could be checking disks, which could takes minutes, that depends on
disk size and data content.
Another reason could be a slow net connection or the lack thereof, if
sendmail is started and there appiers to be a pause then the chances are
that sendmail cant resolve hostnames thro' the lack of a DNS server, there
in turn because the net connection is non-exsistant at that time.
The above examples are of course simple guess work, but things which do
happen.
You will have to be more precise about the problem for any of us to give a
more accurate answer to your question.
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> I don't know if anyone else has experienced this but maybe somebody may
> have and could they tell me what is going on?
We will have to know more about what "this" is.
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> Is there any kind of system maintenance program that Linux has that I
> should be using to help things along?
There are several, of which should be installed and configured automaticly
when you install the distribution.
Things like H/D's get checked after a certain amount of reboots, i think the
default is 20. fsck does that which i mentioned above.
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> Thanks for any ideas
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>
> Richard
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