On 4/12/06, Teresa and Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Martins Steinbergs wrote:
>
> >
> >
> >read ~/.xsession-errors
> >maybe some hint there, once i had that file fill free space on /home with few
> >GB 'cause busy filling errors

Yeah, I'll be looking in there shortly to see if there's any residual problems.

> >before start KDE also try remove previous session saves, maybe there some
> >sassion saved in bad state
> >rm ~/.kde/share/config/session/*

I'll be doing that too.

> You might also want to use top to see what, if anything, is using up
> your CPU time.  Also keep in mind that if the CPU is fairly idle that
> the hard drive may be busy as well.  I ran into this once before on a
> really slow system and it was the updatedb program.  It was nice'd
> correctly but that doesn't apply to the hard drive.  I read earlier that
> they are working on that too though.

On my laptop, it used to be (under the tyranny of the 350meg windows
pagefile) that if the hard drive lit up the system was busy.  Under
linux if the cpu lights up it's busy.  It's a nice change.  The hard
drive for the X40 is so darn slow...

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