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Re: [edlug] Sluggish machine



Hi,
well got home last night, ran top.. KSCD was hogging 95% resources, didnt
even know it was runing. Killed it process.& hey presto, system ran smooth
again.

Thanks all for suggestions.

Derek
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Alan Cooper" <edlug@xxx.xxx.xxx>
To: "Edlug" <edlug@xxx.xxx.xxx>
Sent: Monday, April 12, 2004 9:52 AM
Subject: Re: [edlug] Sluggish machine


>
> Derek wrote:
>
> >Hi,
> >
> >Hoping for some help/pointing in right direction.
> >
> >I have a fairly Decent PC  AMD1.9Ghz  1GB ram Running mandrake 10.  My
> >problem is, my machine seems to think it is a 286, doing anything takes
an
> >age.
> >
> >
>
> Derek,
>             Have you run top from a shell window to see what is hogging
> the resources. I'd also check that DMA is enabled where applicable using
> hdparm.
>
> Regards,
> Alan
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