On Friday 12 March 2004 11:36 am, Chris Carlen wrote:
Greetings: snip It makes me wonder if there is a fragmentation problem, or some other maintenance needs to be done. Unfortunately I haven't been able to run with DMA enabled for the HD drive on this machine, but I have another machine with DMA enabled, and it is experiencing the same apparent slowdown. snip This was fixed by deleting all the files in the /tmp dir. Sometimes this helps things.
Any other tips?
Christopher R. Carlen
Sounds like your HD or certain partitions are full. Clean out more than just /tmp. Remove (rm) all unnecessary files from your HDs. Back them up first or just delete if they are old or stale. Look for files that are obviously too large by sorting on size. Could be a corrupt file of x-GBs needs to be deleted. You can use df or KDiskFree or any other tools to tell/show you how free/full each partition on each drive is. My rule of thumb is to have AT LEAST 10% free space on drives/partitions. Stan