System suddenly slowed down...

[Robin Laing]

Dotan Cohen wrote:
> On 6/1/05, Thomas Cameron <thomas.cameron at 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
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> 

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.
-- 
Robin Laing