On Thursday, August 21, 2003, at 10:49 AM, Jim Ray wrote:
i like re-loading systems and starting from known good initial conditions. works for differential equations and computers.
I disagree. I find this a complete and utter cop out for any computer tech that feels this is a good way of 'troubleshooting' any system no matter what the OS.
First things you could do is look at top and see where the process speed is going. That can help identify what process is taking time causing said 'slowness'
There are a lot of tools available to judge the health of the system. Format C or mkfs /dev/hda is not a good solution to a problem.
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