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 http://english-lyrics.com/el/band.php/402/Pink%20Floyd
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.
On Tue, 2005-05-31 at 23:53 +0300, Dotan Cohen 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.
When you see the system do this, run the command top. It will show you the process that is eating your resources.
Thomas
On 6/1/05, Thomas Cameron thomas.cameron@camerontech.com wrote:
On Tue, 2005-05-31 at 23:53 +0300, Dotan Cohen 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.
When you see the system do this, run the command top. It will show you the process that is eating your resources.
Thomas
Problem is, when the system does this, I can't do anything! In what logs can I look to find the culprit?
Dotan Cohen http://english-lyrics.com/el/band.php/402/Pink%20Floyd
Dotan Cohen wrote:
On 6/1/05, Thomas Cameron thomas.cameron@camerontech.com wrote:
On Tue, 2005-05-31 at 23:53 +0300, Dotan Cohen 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.
When you see the system do this, run the command top. It will show you the process that is eating your resources.
Thomas
Problem is, when the system does this, I can't do anything! In what logs can I look to find the culprit?
Dotan Cohen http://english-lyrics.com/el/band.php/402/Pink%20Floyd
You may not be able see anything in any log.
You may find that it may speed up after awhile but I think that if you can start to close applications as soon as it starts to slow down. Open a terminal window and start top as soon as it slow down to see if there is anything happening.
This type of problem is one of those where and application or driver is causing your problem.
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