On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 6:58 PM, Roger <are...@bigpond.com> wrote: > Couple of things seem to have gone awry. > > I think Ubuntu update to 14.04 has messed around with Fedora 20 grub boot > because booting now takes for ever and defaults to Ctrl D to Continue or > root password for maintenance, then takes 30-50 seconds to boot. > > 2nd, With the latest updates and kernel-3.15.5-200.fc20.x86_64 something > seems wrong. The machine used to be quite fast but now is very slow. > Any processes like opening and deleting emails, screen refresh, opening > or closing files is very slow and the hard drive is working overtime with > every mouse click or key press. > CPUs are running at 20-50%, memory runs at 85%, temp directory is running > overtime. > > Whereas performing the same in ubuntu 14.04, 386 memory runs around 35%, > cpu's 20-50%, no hard drive temp used at all, and emails open and delete > immediately. > > I have cleaned repositories, removed unused files and software in both > setups, run sudo yum autoclean, sudo yum clean packages. top shows nothing > untoward. > > I am running 3.15.4-200.fc20.x86_64 for this email and the system seems to > be better but the hard drive works overtime with each change. > kernel-3.14.8-200.fc20.x86_6 produces inode errors and boot fails. > > There is a command to rebuild grub boot but I don't remember the details, > can someone please point me to how this should be done. > What should I look for as to why the system is not operating as before. > Help much appreciated > thanks > Roger
Do you see any error reports in /var/log/messages ? Do you see any error reports when running dmesg? You might want to post those error messages to shed more light on the problem.
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