Re: [edlug] Sluggish machine

[hancock@xxx.xxx.xxx (Peter G. Hancock)]

I'd a similar experience a couple of weeks ago.  I've no idea whether
the root cause was anything similar to yours.  In fact I've no precise
idea what the root cause was in my case, but suspect it was something
to do with fonts and a new version of Qt, as a bit of blundering around
in the fontconfig area sorted things out.

The most helpful thing is probably to suggest places to look.
1. /var/log/.  
   Is something spewing out zigabytes of error messages?  (It can happen.)
   ls -lart, and tail -f a few of the most recent logs.  Anything weird
   or unusual there? dmesg.
2. ~./xsession-errors.  AWOUT? 
3. Tools like top, or other system monitors. 
4. ls -lart /etc, and consider whether any of the files there changed
   at or around the time the trouble started.  Have a gander.
5. It sounds like your system is thrashing somehow.  Have you got
   enough swap space?  Find out some way to monitor swapping. 
6. Hard disk params disturbed somehow?   
    > PC has been working fine & running great. The only change has been  swapping
    > out a graphics card, nvidia 4200  for nvidia fx 5600. & driver installation
    > is same.
7. Find and read recent mailing list archives for this beast.  Is there 
   some horrific recent bug?  Some newer version of the driver?

HTH

Hank
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