Since before Dec 25 both my FC2 and my F7 computers have been running super slow. Both machines also have XT and that ran fine in informal tests this weekend, that is, XT responded well and exhibited no slowness or crashes. After having 2 Linux boxes go bad at the same time, I'm concerned I'll just have a repeat experience if I go for a quick fix like install Fedora 8, or, buy a new Linux box. So if someone knows what I should do to try to get to the bottom of this I'll would love to give it my best shot, although, as you probably already know, I don't know very much about computers. Thanks for your consideration. Doug P.S. More description of the problem: The FC2 box has seemed fine for the past 24 hours but it has done that before and then reverted to taking 3 minutes to boot, 30 seconds to rewrite the screen and so long to close applications that my computers say the program is not responding. When I return to the computers, they take very long to respond. On the Fedora 7 box, it is often faster to press reset and reboot than to wait for the computer to revive. The F7 symptoms started with 3 crashes from Evolution "Tasks." Some related bug numbers from Bugzilla are 503705-393157-490755, 509069-510314. The Bugzilla folks suggested I get a stack trace but before I could use the tracing software I had problems when Evolution wasn't even running. I think one instance was when running Firefox. Another is, 3 more more mornings, when no application was running all night, in the morning I have found my home directory open and frozen on screen and so on.
