On 09/22/2011 04:36 AM, rkonrad wrote:
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> I’ve noticed though, over the months, it seems to be getting more and more sluggish.
when you say ‘it’ seems to be more sluggish, what do you mean by it?
that is, does Firefox seem more piggish? scroll slower? change pages
slower? take longer to load? spend more time “Waiting for somesite.com”
to finish and let the page come though?
the calculator…does it now struggle to crunch a few numbers?
use a word processor? do the letters lag and hesitate to the screen?
your email client (which), does it open a new letter more slowly?
music: is it playing more slowly? do singers not get the words out?
movies: do people look like they are moving slowly?
booting: initially how many seconds did it take? and now?
IRC: scrolls up new messages so very slowly now?
what happens if you turn off desktop effects?
or, if you choose a much simpler background and theme (it takes more
computations to draw a browser with square corners than round ones! and
more to update the screen when the backround is complex rather than a
single color)…
is your disk almost full? have you added a bunch of stuff from
incompatable sources? please show us the terminal output from:
df -h
zypper lr -d
copy/paste the output back to this thread using the instructions here:
http://goo.gl/i3wnr
so, talk to us about the ‘it’, be specific, otherwise i don’t know how
we could guess if you have a problem, or not…
i’ll say this without knowing more: Windows is said to collect crud in
the registry, allow in keyboard loggers, and all kinds of virus which
suck the life out of the machine as time goes on, but that doesn’t
happen in linux…if your machine is getting slower, one of a very few
things is happening:
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you have a hardware problem
-
you have changed the environment in ways which is now overtaxing the
machine
-
you have added software that is not correctly installed/set up to give
good service
we can’t guess which might be happening…
–
DD
Caveat
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