Re: Slow System

[ewolfe involved com (Ed Wolfe)]

Jim Tarvid wrote:

[regarding the extreme slowness I experienced with Netscape]
 
> Something is fundamentally wrong.
> 
> If the CPU usage indicator runs full or even more than 30% it is time to
> look at processor usage.
> 
> Take a look at "top". (e.g. man top)
> 
> Jim Tarvid

Hi Jim,

Thanks for the help. It's fine now and I didn't change anything.

I think I must've run something and then killed it and it
didn't quite die.

I've been having problems with Usernet. I kill it and start it
again, only to find later that I've got it open several times.

Once, after I closed Netscape, it told me there was a lock on
it or something that would keep me from using the cache and
a few other things, as if a copy was still running.

So, somehow, I must've been running two copies, but only
one was visible.

Something else wierd happened yesterday. Any command I
typed, either in xterm, or in a regulal shell with X running
would give this response:

Segmentation Fault (core dumped)

I also got,

"Unable to load Interpreter"

Two reboots settled the problem. Any idea what caused it?

And if you're inclined, I've got one more I can't find
the answer to. When I write mail from pine, the From: line
comes out as:

root ewolfe-involved com

That obviously doesn't work. I read that I should create a user
account that is the same as my email account name. I did that,
but then when I go into X as "ewolfe" instead of as "root"
then I can't activate the ppp connection. Only root has the
authority to activate it from the Network Configuration tool,
and when I try to use Usernet as "ewolfe," nothing happens at
all. As root, I can dial either way.

??

Ed