[Klug-general] Lots of disk activity slowing me down

[Margot]

Mike Rentell wrote:
> Good day all,
> 
> I run Mandriva2007 Free on an aging desktop running an AMD Athlon t 
> 1.3Ghz into 1.5 Gb of RAM. I've had this setup for some time, just 
> updating the odd bits and keeping up-to-date with Mandriva.
> 
> Recently I've noticed that shortly after startup and a few minutes using 
> SeaMonkey and Konqueror everything slows down dramatically and there is 
> continuous disk activity for about ten minutes.
> 
> I have no idea what is going on as I don't recall changing anything 
> other than updating to M2007Free. If anyone has any advice, that'd be 
> most welcome.
> 
> MikeR
> in Folkestone
> 

It would help if we knew what the activity was - you could try 
running top in a terminal, or use ksysguard if you prefer a GUI.

The only thing I've had with 2007 that seems in any way similar is 
if I've left Firefox running for too long - more than about 3 days - 
closing it down & then immediately reopening it seems to be the cure.

And I know that others had problems a while back with a program 
called Kat, but I think that was on Mandriva 2006 - I don't use it, 
so I uninstalled it which is maybe why I don't have the problem, but 
if you have Kat installed you could try getting rid of it unless you 
really want it!

-- 
Margot