> 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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