Bouts of Extreme System Slug
Oliver Ruebenacker
curoli at gmail.com
Wed Apr 1 13:55:11 UTC 2009
Hello Terry, All,
2009/4/1 Terry Snyder <tes215 at psu.edu>:
> On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 8:04 AM, Oliver Ruebenacker <curoli at gmail.com> wrote:
>> How can I diagnose what causes the sluggishness?
>>
> Use the Dell Diag/Utility disk that came with the system, and do a hard
> drive scan from that. It will tell you if there is bad sectors on the
> drive. If it is still under warranty then dell will replace your drive.
I got the laptop from my employer, not sure if I ever got such a
disk. I'll ask there.
> You should also be able to look at the system logs and see if SMART is
> throwing any errors when it is trying to read or write to the drive.
You mean "grep smart /var/log/messages"? Seems only to show startup
and shutdown entries.
Thanks!
Take care
Oliver
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Oliver Ruebenacker, Computational Cell Biologist
BioPAX Integration at Virtual Cell (http://vcell.org/biopax)
Center for Cell Analysis and Modeling
http://www.oliver.curiousworld.org
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