What's the best way to reload it? Fdisk and remove the partition? Is there
a less painful way?
I tried the other solutions. CPU usage is almost nil...
Thanks,
BobC
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Sent: Sunday, January 21, 2001 9:55 AM
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Subject: Re: [newbie] Help! new 7.2 system has gotten abominably slow
On Sunday 21 January 2001 16:27, you wrote:
> It started yesterday, after there was a power failure.
>
> Its a dual PIII - 600 with 1/2 gb SDRAM and dual UW SCSI with dual UW 5.4
> ms Barracuda drives. The video is a Creative Labs Savage4 with 32 mb.
>
> Nooooooooo, it can't be slow!!! Without running X its horribly slow.
> With X, its unbelievably slow.
>
> Without X, if I bring up pine, its 2 MINUTES for the screen to come up!!!
> startx takes 10 MINUTES to come up. The tips wizard is 15 MINUTES later.
>
> The drives are barely being hit. The NIC isn't flashing. There are no
> error messages on the screens except the 2nd NIC failing at boot (which I
> expect, until I connect it to the cable modem, in the meantime, its just a
> station on my internal home LAN). It seems like pine runs at normal speed
> (comparatively) once its up. pico seems to come up fine by itself.
>
> Am I at another reload? Any suggestions how to diagnose? I shut it down,
> powered back up, and when that didn't fix it, I rebooted and ran full
tests
> on the drives, checked the BIOS setup. Then I tried windoze 98 and it
runs
> fine. Shutdown is quick, too, for some reason...
>
> Help!
>
> BobC
Well, you might want to try top or ktop to see the process that is hogging
the cpu, but most likely it will be less trouble to reload the system (as in
reinstall). Something got clobbered (we hope it isn't hardware) which other
processes are waiting for completion of.....
Civileme
