Hello Terry, All, 2009/4/1 Terry Snyder <tes215@xxxxxxx>: > On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 8:04 AM, Oliver Ruebenacker <curoli@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> How can I diagnose what causes the sluggishness? >> > Use the Dell Diag/Utility disk that came with the system, and do a hard > drive scan from that. It will tell you if there is bad sectors on the > drive. If it is still under warranty then dell will replace your drive. I got the laptop from my employer, not sure if I ever got such a disk. I'll ask there. > You should also be able to look at the system logs and see if SMART is > throwing any errors when it is trying to read or write to the drive. You mean "grep smart /var/log/messages"? Seems only to show startup and shutdown entries. Thanks! Take care Oliver -- Oliver Ruebenacker, Computational Cell Biologist BioPAX Integration at Virtual Cell (http://vcell.org/biopax) Center for Cell Analysis and Modeling http://www.oliver.curiousworld.org -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines