Hello Every One

[James Knott]

Stephen Oulton wrote:
> I have been using Mandrake 9.1 for almost a year. Lately my computer has
> started to respond very slowly after a while of use.
> 
> When I first start the system and go to my user area it works fine and
> after a few minutes it starts to respond slowly.
> 
> If I log out and log in again then it works fine for a while.
> 
> I have tried to find things in the documents and have failed to find
> anything that could cause this.
> 
> If it happened in windows I would figure that the computer is running
> multiple files at the same time. Maybe spy ware or system tools running
> in the back ground.

Try running ps aux|grep <username> to see what's running.
> 
> Is there a defrag for linux or does it defrag as it saves files?

Only MS file systems need defragging.  Others, such as ext2, ext3, HPFS 
etc., are frag resistant.


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