"why is my Linux so damn slow?"

[compdoc]

>when I upgraded from Fedora 12 to Fedora 14, about twenty days ago,
>the system (which wasn't doing really well even before the upgrade)
>became almost unusable.


Weird problems often have a hardware issue behind them. There are many
things to check. Some are easier than others:

>From the desktop, open the program System>Administration>Disk Utility.
Select each of your hard drives in the list on the left, and then click the
Smart Data button.

In the upper part of the window, look for a Bad Sector count, and Overall
Assessment of the drive.

Any problems?