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

[Mike Rentell]

George Prowse wrote:
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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
>>
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> 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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Following all advice, I've now used the tools suggested and killed 
beagled and clamav both of which were  using up resources.
Speed now recovered - thanks to all. I'll try and remember that.
MikeR