-- Well, this is the first time that I've used Gmail in lynx! Today my FC4 system started slowing down on me, becoming unusable. I ran top, as was suggested to me when i had the same problem on FC3, and I just uploaded the output of 3 runs of top here: http://dotancohen.com/top I also checked in SysGuard, you can see the screenshot here: http://dotancohen.com/sysguard.png I see in top that there are 4 users. Earlier in the day there were 3 users. Other than root, there is only on other user on this machine (me- dotancohen). Also, while STFA I noticed that in my post regarding the system slowdown in FC3, I mentioned that I had run yum clean all prior to the onset of the problem. Well, this morning, about an hour before the problem started, I ran yum clean all for the first time on the FC4 installation! I should note that the FC4 installation was NOT an upgrade. It was a clean install. Other note. When I ALT-F6'ed to get to a terminal to reset the machine, there was output to the screen about some problem, I think about the disk. It went by pretty fast, but I was able to copy (on paper) this from it: "Illegal request" "I/O error" "endrequest:I/O error, dev hdb, sector 0" "11 messages suppresed" "illegal mose for this track or incompatable medium". After shutting it down with the switch, X is so solow that I ALT-F6'ed into the terminal and I am writing this in lynx... Dotan Cohen http://LyricsList.com/