I have a Compaq Presario 1200 laptop with 64MB (yeah, I know...small).
Anyway, when I first installed SuSE 8.0 on it, back in Jan., it ran
great. Fast and defenitly putting Windoze to shame. That lasted about
a month, then it slowed down. Now it runs slower then a Win95 on P120.
Anyway, what's the problem? Is there an easy fix to this. I'm already
going to put some more memory into that little thing, but is it just
going to start doing tohe same thing again? Thanks in advance.


John

Failure is not an option -- it comes bundled with Windows.

John Ward wrote:
> I have a Compaq Presario 1200 laptop with 64MB (yeah, I know...small).
> Anyway, when I first installed SuSE 8.0 on it, back in Jan., it ran
> great. Fast and defenitly putting Windoze to shame. That lasted about
> a month, then it slowed down. Now it runs slower then a Win95 on P120.
> Anyway, what's the problem? Is there an easy fix to this. I'm already
> going to put some more memory into that little thing, but is it just
> going to start doing tohe same thing again? Thanks in advance.
>
>
> John
>
> Failure is not an option -- it comes bundled with Windows.

When an O.S. gradually runs slower and slower, I would tend to suspect
available H.D. space rather than RAM. The latter is volatile, after
all, and Linux will buffer/cache as much as it can using the faster RAM
before the slower swap partition. At the very least a cold reboot
completely "frees up" anything remaining in RAM.

In the one situation where I've seen this, the problem was a huge
amount of disk space being used up under the / partition, which I was
able to find using the du command. Specifically du -ah --max-depth=1 is
what I used to drill down and figure out where all the HD space had
gone. Turns out the user had been logged on as root all the time (not a
good idea) and the browser cache was using many, many MB.

Something similar could happen with other partitions too, of course.


Good luck,
Rick D.

johnward@elkhart.net (John Ward) wrote:

> I have a Compaq Presario 1200 laptop with 64MB (yeah, I know...small).
> Anyway, when I first installed SuSE 8.0 on it, back in Jan., it ran
> great. Fast and defenitly putting Windoze to shame. That lasted about
> a month, then it slowed down. Now it runs slower then a Win95 on P120.
> Anyway, what's the problem? Is there an easy fix to this. I'm already
> going to put some more memory into that little thing, but is it just
> going to start doing tohe same thing again? Thanks in advance.
>
>
> John
>
> Failure is not an option -- it comes bundled with Windows.


Hi,
usually on Suse "nobody" user does some commands like "find" or
"updatedb"; these are commands to mantain in well state your sistem. Try
to use "top" and
see what is succeding. "top" shows what commands are currently in
action, with k you can kill them; for more info try "info top".
Bye
P.S. Exscuse for my horrible english.
Max

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