System slows down when I'm online

2003-03-29 Thread Frank Erdmann
Hi! I' ve been looking around in several Debian- Forums but couldn't find any help on the following Problem I have with my System: Sometimes (seems randomly to me) when I use Webbrowsers like Mozilla or Konqueror to browse Websites online the System slows down extremely, the harddisk

Re: System Slows Down

2003-03-29 Thread Robert Ewald
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am Freitag, 28. März 2003 18:31 schrieb Barak Korren: > Nathan E Norman wrote: > >>1. AFAIK, system-wide, package-installed cronjobs are in configutred in > >>Sys-V style in the /etc/cron.* directories and not in a standard user > >>crontab file. > > >

Re: System Slows Down

2003-03-29 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 11:12:21AM -0600, John Hasler wrote: > That's what most Debian packages do but it is perfectly ok for you to put > stuff in /etc/chrontab or under /etc/cron.d. Debian packages putting thier own crontabs in /etc/cron.d is not un

Re: System Slows Down

2003-03-28 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 07:31:17PM +0200, Barak Korren wrote: > Anyway the way I'd prefer to do it is to simply remove the package > that put the job there in the first place since chances are it > wouldn't work witout the cronjob anyway. man-db will work fine without its cron job; apropos and wha

Re: System Slows Down

2003-03-28 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 10:32:53AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Fri, 28 Mar 2003 01:41:09 -0800 > Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 11:44:38AM +0200, Barak Korren wrote: > > > 2. The right way to configure crontab it to use the contab (1) > > > command.

Re: System Slows Down

2003-03-28 Thread John Hasler
Kevin writes: > It looks like The Debian Way to do cron is to add scripts to > /etc/cron.daily or /etc/cron.weekly or /etc/cron.monthly depending on how > often you want the jobs to run. That's what most Debian packages do but it is perfectly ok for you to put stuff in /etc/chrontab or under /etc/

Re: System Slows Down

2003-03-28 Thread Barak Korren
Nathan E Norman wrote: 1. AFAIK, system-wide, package-installed cronjobs are in configutred in Sys-V style in the /etc/cron.* directories and not in a standard user crontab file. ... and said scripts are run via run-parts(8) which is called by scripts called in /etc/crontab. Have you bothe

Re: System Slows Down

2003-03-28 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 11:44:38AM +0200, Barak Korren wrote: > 2. The right way to configure crontab it to use the contab (1) command. This is only the case when you want to update a user's crontab. The version of cron distributed with Debian automa

Re: System Slows Down

2003-03-28 Thread Barak Korren
Paul Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 11:52:52AM -0700, Didier Caamano wrote: And how could I do this?, or better, where is the this cron-tab? This is where locate comes in handy, BTW. Typing "locate crontab" gives you all the filenames

Re: System Slows Down

2003-03-28 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 11:52:52AM -0700, Didier Caamano wrote: > And how could I do this?, or better, where is the this cron-tab? This is where locate comes in handy, BTW. Typing "locate crontab" gives you all the filenames on the system named cront

Re: System Slows Down

2003-03-28 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 11:59:59PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Every so often, things will slow to a CRAWL, > and then poof, go back to normal. WHAT IS THIS? > How can I stop it? ps aux should tell you. If you don't keep your machine running 2

RE: system slows down

2003-03-27 Thread Jeremiah C. Foster
Hey, I just installed debian 3.0, upgraded to testing, put on a custom 2.4.20 kernel, with nvidia-glx all up and running, and I am almost all set. One thing though. Every so often, things will slow to a CRAWL, and then poof, go back to normal. WHAT IS THIS? How can I stop it? Whatever clever prog

System Slows Down

2003-03-27 Thread DanSV
Hey, I just installed debian 3.0, upgraded to testing, put on a custom 2.4.20 kernel, with nvidia-glx all up and running, and I am almost all set. One thing though. Every so often, things will slow to a CRAWL, and then poof, go back to normal. WHAT IS THIS? How can I stop it? Whatever clever prog

Re: System Slows Down

2003-03-27 Thread Didier Caamano
From: Joerg Johannes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: System Slows Down Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2003 19:19:41 +0100 On Thursday 27 March 2003 16:54, Colin Watson wrote: > On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 03:48:52PM +0100, Joerg Johannes wrote: > > If you never

Re: System Slows Down

2003-03-27 Thread Joerg Johannes
On Thursday 27 March 2003 16:54, Colin Watson wrote: > On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 03:48:52PM +0100, Joerg Johannes wrote: > > If you never use the "locate" command, consider removing the dlocate (or > > slocate) package. > > dlocate is not an implementation of locate. Oh, sorry. However, removing the

Re: System Slows Down

2003-03-27 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 03:48:52PM +0100, Joerg Johannes wrote: > If you never use the "locate" command, consider removing the dlocate (or > slocate) package. dlocate is not an implementation of locate. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSC

Re: System Slows Down

2003-03-27 Thread Joerg Johannes
Hi Ronin On Thursday 27 March 2003 14:58, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Wed, 26 Mar 2003 23:59:59 -0500 > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Every so often, things will slow to a CRAWL, > > and then poof, go back to normal. WHAT IS THIS? > > How can I stop it? > > Whatever clever program is running in

Re: System Slows Down

2003-03-27 Thread ronin2
On Wed, 26 Mar 2003 23:59:59 -0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Every so often, things will slow to a CRAWL, > and then poof, go back to normal. WHAT IS THIS? > How can I stop it? > Whatever clever program is running in the background, > I would like it to stop! Wow, with that hardware you shouldn

System Slows Down

2003-03-26 Thread DanSV
Hey, I just installed debian 3.0, upgraded to testing, put on a custom 2.4.20 kernel, with nvidia-glx all up and running, and I am almost all set. One thing though. Every so often, things will slow to a CRAWL, and then poof, go back to normal. WHAT IS THIS? How can I stop it? Whatever clever prog