[PLUG] Morning Slugishness

[Mel Andres]

Richard C. Steffens wrote:
> After several hours away from my machine, i.e. it's running but 
> idling, there is a delay of up to two or three seconds between 
> clicking on a running program's button at the bottom of the screen and 
> the display of that program's window. After a couple of minutes, 
> response time returns to normal. This effect grows gradually over a 
> period of weeks (maybe months?) to the point that it becomes annoying. 
> I'm used to some delays getting a program started, but once running 
> they usually run fine.
>
> Any ideas what causes this?
>
> Hardware: Pentium II, 400 MHz, 192Mb RAM
> Software: SuSE 9.1 (2.6 kernel), KDE 3.2
> Applications running minimized:
>   Thunderbird (checking for e-mail every 10 minutes - not downloading)
>   Firefox
>   Patience (card game)
>
I had the same problem with Suse 9.1, (older kernel). Swap usage kept 
increasing, and the only thing I could do was reboot. I got up to 10.0 
before switching completely over to another distro.

Mel