On Tue, 31 May 2005 23:53:25 +0300 Dotan Cohen <dotancohen@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > After performing a yum clean packages and then a yum clean all, my FC3 > system started slowing down. I would press a key and wait a few > seconds for a response. Then it was a minute wait. Then it was > infinete. > > I had to shut it down with 'the switch' to get back to where I am now. > But the truth is, although this happened after cleaning yum, this is > not the first time that it has happened to me. I had Opera, konsole, > kmail, and konqerer open at the time. > > I can hear the hard disk crunching away whenever that happens. The > computer is an AMD Duron machine with 512 megs of SDram. Note that I > can move the mouse and the pointer keeps up with me. Other than that- > frozen. > > Any ideas what to look for? I will try to keep track of what is > running when this happens, when it happens again. > > Dotan Cohen Perhaps one of the system programs is running and hammering the disk. This will slow down performance. Do a ps -ax to see what processes are running such as prelink or updatedb or yum etc. -- Richard E Miles Federal Way WA. USA registered linux user 46097
