On Tuesday 30 August 2005 08:17 am, YankDownUnder wrote: > 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! he needs a localhost entry in his /etc/hosts file. he is not resolving his own IP without DNS lookups. -- registered linux user #167806 (http://counter.li.org/) Webhome "http://ed-tharp.kicks-ass.org";
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