Re: fc8 runs too slow sometimes

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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.

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