Re: strange system slow down

["Alan Mead" <amead8695 home com>]

What do you get when you execute free?  top?  I've had issues where after a
period, my RH 7.0 machine will start idling at a load of 1.00.  But a reboot
cures it for me.  Timeouts can also cause the kind of thing you're seeing...
there's not a single unusual line in any log?

-Alan

----- Original Message -----
From: "David Yates" <DYATES perrigo com>
To: <redhat-list redhat com>
Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2001 9:09 AM
Subject: strange system slow down


> Over the past week I have been experiencing a noticible slow down of my
1.4 gz AMD, 512 mb ddram  with 1024 md swap redhat 7.1 (fully updated)
machine. At first I attributed this to ximian gnome's nautilus and oaf
packages--issuing the oaf-slay and nautilus-clean.sh helped a little. While
compiling the latest Nvidia drivers for my geforce3 card, i got an error
about a bad sector, or block, or somtething like that (I can't remember
exactly). Anyway, I rebooted after this, and there were errors on my 80 gb
hda1. So I ran fsck manually like i was supposed to. My machine is stilll
painfully slow (takes over 2 minutes to starx x windows, takes several
seconds to open a file with emacs from the command line, takes well close to
2 hours for fsck to check the drive for errors (the drive is only 17% full
and the progress bar is uniformly slow from 1 to 100% during the check) I am
at a loss . This was a fast machine a week ago. Is my hard drive dying or
what? Please advise.
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