my debian is so slow

[mfaridi]

I installed debian 3.1 with 2.6 kernel three month ago

I go to trip and can not use my computer
when I came back and want use Debian , I see it is so slow
It get alot of time for loading

when I want open TERMINAL , terminal open after 2 min

what is problem,
how I can check why my debian is so slow

I use gnome and XFCE4

my system :
CPU Athlon XP 2400+
Mainboard Asus A7N8X-E Deluxe
RAM 1 GB kingston DDR 400
H.D1 maxtor 80 GB SATA
H.D 2 maxtor 80GB ATA
H.D 3 Quantum 20 GB

I install Debain 0n maxtor 80GB ATA
I install FreeBSD 6.1 on Quantum 20 GB
I install Ubuntu and win XP on maxtor 80 GB SATA


please help my debian is so slow for open termianl I have to wait for 2 min

[fatra2]

Did you look at what is making your system so slow. The command

top

should give you what is running on your system at the moment.

If it's not a program that is slowing down your system, it could be that you have a "core" file somewhere that is so heavy that your system is slow. I would make a search for any "core" files on your system.

[mfaridi]

Did you look at what is making your system so slow. The command

top

should give you what is running on your system at the moment.

If it's not a program that is slowing down your system, it could be that you have a "core" file somewhere that is so heavy that your system is slow. I would make a search for any "core" files on your system.

I am new user
what is core
how I can undrestand my computer has core ?
how I find core ?

[fatra2]

Whenever your system has a really big bug, a file with the name "core" is created. The content of this file is an image of what happened at the time of the really big bug. Therefore, this "core" file is very large. If you have one or more of these files on your system, it might saturate because there is not enough memory anymore.

You can searc for this file with a few commands.

grep core

is one of them. grep will look throughout your system, into every file, to find a matching word. Depending on the size of your system, grep may take a while.

Since you are looking for a filename, and not what's into them, you might save some time and use

locate core

This command will only look at the filenames. If it's the first time you use "locate", you might have to make ,as root

updatebd

first.

I hope this helps you. Keep us posted if this does do the trick for you system

Cheers

[anix]

Hi,

Try out the following

# du -h

this shows up ur disk space state... Check whether u hav enough space in ur
/ partition .
# free
this shows how much mem u hav .. if it is incorrectly reported probably (i,m not sure
at all) hav a hardware problem ( mem went loose out in its jacket etc).

Is ur swap partition on use ?
Good Luck