my machine is suddenly extremely slow

[Roberto Ragusa]

On 05/13/2013 11:55 PM, Frédéric Bron wrote:
> Using Fedora 18, KDE 4.10.2 on x86_64 laptop with kernel 3.8.11-200
> and nvidia proprietary drivers.
> 
> I have two hard disk. One SSD with / and swap and one hybrid with /home.
> Recently, I remarked extremely long times (>60 s) to open some
> programs like firefox or dolphin, the latter being the most critical.
> I suspect disk access to slow down the machine as this happens when
> the processor is nearly idle.
> What can I check? Can I check the hard disks, how? Could it be something else?

hdparm -t /dev/sda
hdparm -t /dev/sdb

as a first step (root user needed).

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