From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 5 16:12:32 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gekko.i-clue.de (server.ms-agentur.de [62.153.134.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E4DFC37B875 for ; Mon, 5 Jun 2000 16:12:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from so@server.i-clue.de) Received: from i-clue.de (automatix.i-clue.de [192.168.0.112]) by gekko.i-clue.de (8.9.3/8.9.3/SuSE Linux 8.9.3-0.1) with ESMTP id DAA13237; Tue, 6 Jun 2000 03:15:28 +0200 Message-ID: <393C33F8.1101CD3@i-clue.de> Date: Tue, 06 Jun 2000 01:12:56 +0200 From: Christoph Sold Organization: i-clue interactive GmbH X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: David Banning Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: X screen has become very slow References: <200006052134.RAA00451@tracker> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG David Banning wrote: > My system version 3.4 with 3.3.6 (X) using KDE > All of a sudden all of X is very slow - even using "ls" > the screen has a hard time keeping up. > > Any idea what would cause this? No. Some hints, though: Use top to locate the process eating up your processing time. It will be located -surprise-near the top. If you're doing graphics, use sensible graphics modes: 8bit color depth causes gimp to be a real PITA, especially with slower CPUs. systat displays statistics similiar to top. Check if you got enough real RAM in your box. df may check for filled up disc slices. Any disk usage above 95% will slow down your machine considerably. As always, man is your friend. HTH -Christophb Sold To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message