> To the untutored eye everything looks reasonable. Yeah, I'd say that.
> The Mem used is creeping up all the time. Normally, that's OK as well, since Linux wants to use all the available memory -- what's not active for programs is used for disk and for cache, which is a good idea, since unused RAM is wasted. But having the system slow down to a crawl is certainly not normal. Some people on the list suggest the offender may be jabberd but I'm not sure that's something you installed (do a ps aux | grep jabber). jabberd is something that is known to gradually swallow RAM -- on my machine it was eating about 200 megs (out of 256) after about 3 days. It may be something else that's eating the memory -- that's why I suggested running top. > Drastic it may be, but I may have to. Could you elaborate, please? Well, you just click on 'logout' from KDE which will kill all KDE and X related processes, leaving you at a console shell prompt (if you start kde with 'startkde'). > The KDE startup was extremely slow and everything else has been slow since. > > The system is almost unusable. Ouch. How long has it been since you restarted? > Anne
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