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

[George Prowse]

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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
> 

The problem is simple you use KDE :p

Type "top" in a terminal. What you are looking for is the program taking
up the most cpu cycles and memory ( %CPU %MEM ). Most likely you have a
memory leak and the usual culprits are firefox and java. Anything above
%5 is usually where the problem is. Either su/sudo and "kill" the PID or
"killall" <program>.

Recently i've been having problems with Xorg but they seem to have
cleared up.

If it is continually using the disk it maybe doing updatedb and if you
have a windows partition mounted it usually takes a while (not more than
a minute though)

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