Hard Drive Runs And Computer Slows

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I’ve noticed several times, definitely while running Firefox, that the hard drive starts running and my system slows to crawl and this lasts for several minutes. Have you seen this or can you help me identify what is accessing the drive?

openSUSE 11.0
Pentium M 1.6
1GB memory
Running on 13GB partition

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First guess is that you are swapping because you are out of RAM. Either
close programs or get more RAM. To see memory and swap usage use the
‘free’ command. Using memory a lot? Fine. Using swap a lot? Bad.

Good luck.

OpenSourceRules wrote:
> I’ve noticed several times, definitely while running Firefox, that the
> hard drive starts running and my system slows to crawl and this lasts
> for several minutes. Have you seen this or can you help me identify
> what is accessing the drive?
>
> openSUSE 11.0
> Pentium M 1.6
> 1GB memory
> Running on 13GB partition
>
>
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Hi
Have you removed beagle and the beagle firefox plugin?

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Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
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If you’re running FF 3.0 it most likely is being caused by FF’s security settings. Try going to Preferences - Security and unchecking “Tell me if the site I’m visiting is a suspected attack site” and “Tell me if the site I’m visiting is a suspected forgery”. This has helped other before, including myself with this same type of problem.

Hope this helps!

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probably beagle. I disabled it.

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I just wanted to update this thread should anyone else have this problem.

I am new to openSUSE and don’t know why it worked but I removed Firefox 3.0.5Beta and installed 3.0.1 and the problem was solved.

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FF 3.x goes out to the web and downloads lists of phishing sites etc a
lot. Maybe it’s this writing to your disk. You can disable that
behaviour, I’ve read elsewhere. Try googling

Andrew C Taubman
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