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Have you done a "free" to look at swap usage?

Beartooth <karhunhammas@lserv.com> wrote:

: 	Recently, whenever I boot up -- and often when I
: give some command -- the computer makes fervent whirring
: noises, and keeps the little red light either blinking fast,
: or on continuously (perhaps there are blinks so fast I can't
: see them), but without doing anything visible.

: 	Sometimes the little yellow light on the bottom of
: the DSL modem also gets hyperactive, but mostly not.

: 	Meanwhile, the machine gets very sluggish or
: altogether unresponsive to commands. You click on something
: in the GUI, or give a command in an xterm, and it either
: takes no notice ever at all, or goes on for several minutes
: absorbed in its churning before it responds.

: 	That got steadily worse, even though I shutdown
: every evening and reboot in the morning;  then recently it
: refused to boot, requiring me first to "run fsck manually,
: without -a or -p." Took me a while to realize it meant to
: command "fsck /var", though I had figured out from a manual
: what "manually, i.e. without -a or -p" meant. I finally did
: that, and told it yes whenever it asked "fix?" (figuring I
: had nothing to lose); now it works again, but the churning
: is still there.

: 	Fwiw, I'm running three betas, and probably
: shouldn't be : Galeon 0.11.3, Opera 6.0B2, and Pan 0.11.2 --
: is that the trouble? Do I just need to run solider releases,
: even if it be of lesser software? Or have I messed up some
: other way? (It doesn't seem to help much to arrange for the
: startx command not to launch any of the betas.)
: --
: RR 'Beartooth' Neuswanger <karhunhammas (at) lserv.com>
: retiree & linux greenhorn w/RH 7.2
: Keep in mind that I have no idea what I am talking about.