On Tue, 30 Aug 2005 21:47, Q.H. Wang tapped out:
> Hi there,
>
> Recently I notice that my box has kinda slow down. To open a console or to
> run some other programs like firefox and kontact it takes over 10 seconds.
> I am not sure how long it exactly took before. It's definitely very fast
> (2-3 seconds, maybe). Also to ping somewhere is slow, but the network is
> quite fast.  I find that there are 40 MB (out of 250) memory remained free,
> and no SWAP (512MB) is used.  The only thing seems a bit strange is that
> there are more than 15 kdeinit running. My box is P4 1.6 M with 250Mb
> memory, installed with Man 10.0 the official. Is there a way to crack this
> down? Any help will be greatly appreciated.
>
> Many thanks.
>
> QingHua.

* Turn off any unnecessary services/programs
* Make sure your machine is not running postfix or spamassassin unless you are  
your own mail server
* If this is a stand alone machine, turn off Samba (smb and nmb)
* Edit the /etc/sysconfig/harddisks file to tweak your drive performance
* Download and run rkhunter or chkrootkit to make sure your machine hasn't 
been compromised
* Make sure your graphics driver is correct for your video card (and the 
X11/Xxorg configurations are correct
* Find out about what modules are loading and edit the appropriate files 
(/etc/modules.conf, /etc/modprobe.conf, /etc/modprobe.preload) to remove the 
ones that are unnecesary
* Clear out directories that are used for temp file storage - like the /tmp, 
the /var/tmp and the ~/tmp directories
* Clear out your browser's cache
* Rebuild your lib cache (as root, run: ldconfig)
* Double check for updates and/or ugrades for your particular version 
(http://urpmi-addmedia.org) and get them.
* Using way WAY too much eye candy? You might want to turn some of it off, eh?

Do all of that - let us know what happens. Cheers!
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