SUSE 11.2 KDE 4.3.5 - When I booted this morning my computer was VERY slow responding to CLI commands. “top” revealed that two processes, “preload” and “process_preload” were taking 97% of my CPU usage. Even worse, my hard drive light was constantly flashing and stayed that way until I rebooted, only to repeat the process. Killing the running “preload” only helped until the next reboot.
I read what I could find on these services which are meant to reduce startup times. I could not find the configuration files under /etc/init.d. What puzzles me most is that this started on its own. I did not update anything yesterday or remove or add any new software. Or even run any software that I don’t use on a regular basis.
It wouldn’t stop, so I uninstalled the two packages showing in Yast. Now I am concerned that some new problem will show up. I notice that my eth0 does not connect as quickly as it used to during the bootup sequence.
Has anyone else encountered this problem? If so please direct me to a howto instruction.
Thanks.