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[Patrick Shanahan <ptilopteri@xxxxxxxxx>]

* jan kalcic <jandot@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [04-01-07 19:13]:
> openSuSE 10.2, never had a problem with filesystem but suddenly it
> seems it has become "bad" as it takes something like 10 or more
> seconds to open a file, especially the biggest ones, and in the
> meanwhile it doesn't allow to do anything else but wait. I've already
> run fsck (ext3) to check it but no error is shown and yet I still have
> big troubles working with big files (>100MB).
> 
> In addition, during the wait, the hard disk sounds like it is doing
> such a big work that it's so busy it can't even move my mouse. Quite
> strange.
> 
> Could it even be an hardware (hard disk) problem?

Sounds like the swap space is full or your file system has ran out of
space.

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