On Tuesday 16 Jul 2002 7:02 am, you wrote: > > 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.
OK > > 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. anne 4391 0.0 0.1 1792 596 pts/1 R 10:06 0:00 grep jabber I didn't think this was there - I don't use an instant messenger. > > > 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'). Logout appears to stop X briefly and then goes straight back to the KDE login. There i s a long black screen delay before switching to the KDE login splash. The first part seems OK but there is a long delay at the loading the desktop - almost a minute - and the panel and restoring session icons are there a very long time, too. It does seem to be X, I think, as once a Konsole is opened it responds fast enough, and so does text editor. > > > 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? 10:10am up 13:12, Whatever it is, it is being saved/restarted on bootup. Last night it was taking almost a minute to open a folder. This morning it is slightly better, at about 20 secs. I don't ask for the session to be re-started, but I suppose that the message may not be what it seems? I think the trouble may have started when I was trying to add my SCSI film scanner. Afterwards I switched the scanner off, and then told kudzu to remove the configuration, so there shouldn't be anything left. Apart from that, I've run out of ideas. Anne
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