On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 3:29 PM, Paula J. Lindsay <paula@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > I am running a fc8 machine and things were going just fine until about a > week ago. Then, my machine started slowing down, almost to a crawl. > This is happening intermittently, but sometimes it lasts for 2 days. > This makes the scientists hindered and they are getting frustrated that I > can't figure it out. Here is a brief show of some of the processes. > Are these zombie processes? > > vwong 31766 1 0 08:07 ? 00:00:00 /usr/bin/dbus-launch > --exit-with-session /usr/bin/startkde > vwong 31767 1 0 08:07 ? 00:00:00 /bin/dbus-daemon --fork > --print-pid 4 --print-address 6 --session > vwong 31788 1 0 08:07 ? 00:00:00 > /usr/bin/gnome-keyring-daemon > vwong 31791 1 0 08:07 ? 00:00:00 /usr/bin/gpg-agent -s > --daemon > vwong 31795 1 0 08:07 ? 00:00:12 /usr/bin/pulseaudio -D > > The machine was just rebooted two days ago. If these are zombie > processes, I can reboot again, but does this mean I have to > reboot every two days? Is there a program that sucks up the cpu time? > Sendmail is running on this machine when it doesn't > need to and he is using kde. Please, can anyone out there help? > Many thanks in advance, > Paula None of those services should be burning many clock cycles. what do `top` and `uptime` report during slow times. -- Fedora 7 : sipping some of that moonshine ( www.pembo13.com )
