> how much memory do you have?
256 meg RAM
> is it shared video mem?
Video card is an NVIDIA GeforceMX with 32 meg.
> how much disk space do you have? (type df, and post it)
It's a 20 gig hard drive. df yields:
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hde2 3283000 104844 3011384 4% /
none 127920 0 127920 0% /dev/shm
/dev/hde6 1007960 267132 689624 28% /home
/dev/hde1 8210880 4533952 3676928 56% /mnt/windows
/dev/hde5 7055648 2102708 4594524 32% /usr
> also type cat /proc/interrupts and let us see that.
CPU0
0: 649067 XT-PIC timer
1: 10128 XT-PIC keyboard
2: 0 XT-PIC cascade
4: 143580 XT-PIC serial
5: 25506 XT-PIC usb-uhci
8: 1 XT-PIC rtc
10: 215504 XT-PIC nvidia
11: 27166 XT-PIC ide2
12: 11946 XT-PIC cmpci
15: 83 XT-PIC ide1
NMI: 0
LOC: 0
ERR: 0
MIS: 0
> did you install (clean, format all linux partitions?) or Upgrade?
It was an install, but I didn't format the /home directory (to keep my
data, of course). Fairly certain formatted everything else.
> try running top as the first thing when you see the slowdown. my guess
> is no free hard drive space (in say /etc or /var), or a lost swap file.
Will do that and report back on it.
Thank you for that, my main problem has been just trying to think of how I
can figure out what's up.
PJ
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