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Old 02-19-2008, 12:48 PM
Brian
 
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Default Re: OS performance hit

HJohnson wrote:
> SuperDaemon wrote:
>
>> Karl Falconer wrote:
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>>
>>> anything i can do without formating my partition to
>>> get slackware back up to the speed it used to be?
>>>
>>> PC specs:
>>> AMD XP 1.8ghz w/ 1gig memmory

>>
>>
>>
>> That PC should be screamingly fast, Speed should not be an issue. Obvious
>> thing to check is "top -c", to see which process, if any, is slowing down
>> the system.

>
> Out of curiosity, which disk format did you install, ext2/ext3/reiser...?
>

My slackware v10 was doing ths same thing this morning, it was soo slow
it wasn't even fit, but after reading this post I found that it was the
nvidia installer eating up 92.5%of my cpu just rebooted and perfect...
thanks for the help
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