Aaron Konstam wrote: > After fighting with For 9 months I am exhausted. I had to get the sound > card to be recognized, to get the machine to shutoff when I shut it > down, etc it has finally almost defeated me. It has worked for 6 months > or more but suddenly during a yum update last week the network slowed > down to a crawl. I did not update anything for awhile but now to use the > web browser to load the web page of the local lan's router takes maybe 5 > minutes if it loads at all. > > I can ping the router with out problem but yum actions just slow to a > halt, going to an external web page is impossible. 1. What does "top" say? 2. Have you tried the yum-fastestmirror package? (I'm not sure if this is available for FC-6.) -- Timothy Murphy e-mail (<80k only): tim /at/ birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
