Karl Falconer <trollman@optonline.net> wrote in message news:<pan.2004.06.26.13.44.41.896467@optonline.net >...
> I have been using slackware-current for about 2 months now, and up until
> now my system has been running really fast and stable. I am using XFCE and
> kernel 2.6.6. but recently i have noticed that applications take longer to
> start up than they used to. Over the years ive noticed this issue with
> SUSE and when i did a format/reinstall everything ran smooth for a few
> more months. Is there anything i can do without formating my partition to
> get slackware back up to the speed it used to be?
>

i am going to do some guessing now
if your computer is up for a very long time
then linux kernel starts to do worser swapping and MM
(lately this is very rarely)
but maybe but maybe
your hd needs defrag


> PC specs:
> AMD XP 1.8ghz w/ 1gig memmory
>
> Thanks
> Karl