"why is my Linux so damn slow?"

[Aaron Konstam]

On Sat, 2011-02-12 at 07:33 -0700, compdoc wrote:
> >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?
> 
> 
> 
> 

I have noi Disk Utility under System->Administration. What is its real
name?
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The algorithm for finding the longest path in a graph is NP-complete.
For you systems people, that means it's *real slow*. -- Bart Miller
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Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam at sbcglobal.net