> During the evening my machine has got slower and slower, and now it takes 
> almost a minute to open any application.  I have logged out, and even halted, 
Hmm. There might be an application or task that's swallowed a lot of
RAM on your system. I would run 'top' in an xterm or konsole and see
if there's anything that is eating up a good deal of RAM.

Sometimes it's a good idea to logout and log back in - in other words
getting completely out of X and back to console mode, and restarting
X. Ordinarily, this action is a pretty drastic one.

> During the bootup messages I briefly saw something to the effect that a 
> compressed image had been found and was being uncompressed.  Is this 

That's normal - the kernel image is compressed to save space.  By that
comment, I assume you rebooted your machine - now did it again start to
slow down?

> Anne

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