[PLUG] system running really slow

[Paul Johnson]

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Brian Quade <brian at brianquade.net> writes:

> I run Red Hat 9 on a system that has been pretty fast in the past, but
> has been operating much more slowly lately.  I am not running any more
> software than I did before but the whole system just drags along these
> days.  It takes minutes just to load Open Office and it didn't used to.
> My screen saver runs in slow motion.  I have an ext3 file system.  Does
> this file system ever need to be defragmented or anything like that?  Is
> there anything else that anyone can think of?  I really haven't added or
> changed anything since the days when it ran fast.

Try fc-cache -f as root.  If that doesn't work, start checking to see if
perhaps your system was compromised.
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