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! -- -- YankDownUnder aka stephen kuhn #mandriva channel op - irc.freenode.net Mandriva Official IRC Support YankDownUnder -at- Mandriva -dot- org ----------------------------------------------- Running Mandriva LE2005-2.6.11-12mdk Registered Linux User # 267497 ----------------------------------------------- He keeps differentiating, flying off on a tangent. ** Real Byte Computers ** Verified Virus Free **
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