Many thanks to all who responded to my initial post. I have finally
tracked the problem down to a dying hard drive. I had various bad blocks
developing which, though not enough to stop the computer altogether,
were more than enough to slow the system to a standstill on more than
one occasion!
One t
Mike McCarty wrote:
I suggest you start top running and just leave it so. It consumes very
little resources. You could put the window in all workspaces. I would
not think that memory failures would lead to slowdown, but rather a
crash. One possibility is some device generating numerous interrupt
On 12/01/2005 12:13 PM, James Caldow wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I am running Debian Sarge on my work PC and over the past couple of weeks I
> have
> noticed it getting slower and slower. The PC had been running very well for
> months previously using both Sarge and Sid.
> It is by no means a high spec
James Caldow wrote:
Hi,
I have attached the output from top in case it is useful. I don't know how
useful this will be though as it is from a time when the PC is almost behaving.
When it stops behaving I don't have enough control over it to be able to run
top!
[snip]
Yes, it was not useful.
Ok, I've just finished running memtest86 on the PC and it has returned no
errors. The next suspect is the graphics card. Are there any tests that can show
faulty graphics memory or do I need to buy another card to find out?
James Caldow
James Caldow wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have attached the output
Hi,
I have attached the output from top in case it is useful. I don't know how
useful this will be though as it is from a time when the PC is almost behaving.
When it stops behaving I don't have enough control over it to be able to run
top!
Steven Wheelwright wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 04:
On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 04:45:52PM +, James Caldow wrote:
>It is by no means a high spec computer, (Athlon 900MHz, 512Mb PC133 SDRAM, 80Gb
> Hard Drive, ATI Radeon 9250 128Mb Graphics Card), but as I say it has been
> running well for months now.
I am no expert on hardware failures, but you ma
Hi All,
I am running Debian Sarge on my work PC and over the past couple of weeks I have
noticed it getting slower and slower. The PC had been running very well for
months previously using both Sarge and Sid.
It is by no means a high spec computer, (Athlon 900MHz, 512Mb PC133 SDRAM, 80Gb
Hard Driv
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