On Tue, 31 May 2005 23:53:25 +0300 Dotan Cohen dotancohen@gmail.com wrote:
After performing a yum clean packages and then a yum clean all, my FC3 system started slowing down. I would press a key and wait a few seconds for a response. Then it was a minute wait. Then it was infinete.
I had to shut it down with 'the switch' to get back to where I am now. But the truth is, although this happened after cleaning yum, this is not the first time that it has happened to me. I had Opera, konsole, kmail, and konqerer open at the time.
I can hear the hard disk crunching away whenever that happens. The computer is an AMD Duron machine with 512 megs of SDram. Note that I can move the mouse and the pointer keeps up with me. Other than that- frozen.
Any ideas what to look for? I will try to keep track of what is running when this happens, when it happens again.
Dotan Cohen
Perhaps one of the system programs is running and hammering the disk. This will slow down performance. Do a ps -ax to see what processes are running such as prelink or updatedb or yum etc.