System slowing down to a stall.

[Satish Balay]

On Tue, 14 Dec 2004, Divided By 0 wrote:

> So is there anything that can show me what's eating my system up? Anything
> syspicious I could check?

For one - 'free' is a better tool to measure memory usage.  And try
the following: to see if the memory usage (used -/+ buffers/cache)
decreases:

free
rm /etc/prelink.cache
/etc/cron.daily/prelink
free

You could also run 'slabtop' and look for the memory usage in
'ext3_inode_cache' (and see if it changes)

Satish