thanks much. I just shut apm off and now it's blazing away speedily :)
i'm not sure how much i can help, but i figure anything's worth a try.
this was recently happening to a friend of mine, and it turned out to
be a problem with his powersave stuff on his laptop. it was dropping his
cpu clockspeed as low as 8mhz at one point. i think he upgraded his kernel,
and it seemed to solve it, but i can't be sure. this might be someplace to
look into anyway. hope this helps.
marisa
On Fri, Jun 16, 2000 at 05:44:11AM -0700, solutrean graced me with:
> 'Hatters
>
> After booting up, stuff runs fine for the first 5 min or so..maybe not even 5 min,
> but then the computer goes all slow on me. I dont know why.
>
> mobile PII 300
> 96M ram, plenty HD space...stock install mitten zie updates.
> all unused services turned off.
>
> top looks weird, in that general utilities seem to be taking up way too much cpu
>resource.
> I was running X, and top itself was taking up like 27% of the cpu and sends the load
>up over 1.5.
> also, the performace is too slow given a certain load average: a load of 3 feels
>like a load of 10.
> on my other boxen, a load of 3 is slow but still workable.
>
> I have installed RH61 2 times on this computer, and the first time i did not have
>this problem - got awesone response.
> I sure dont know what i did different this time.
> X aninations like Windowmaker iconify seem especially slow.
>
> I saw nothing odd in messages. I dont know where else to look, because it all seems
>so general.
>
> I will gratefully furnish any more info or RTFM.
>
>
> thx
> jon
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