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List:       suse-linux-e
Subject:    Re: [SLE] My SuSE Linux is very slow sometimes.
From:       Fabian Dost <olfab () web ! de>
Date:       2003-02-27 19:01:04
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> I wonder why my SuSE Linux 8.1 becomes very slow
> sometimes. It becomes slow if my harddisk suddenly
> being busy because of an unknown process. I guess
> because fsck but I am not sure.
You system shouldn't slow down that much. It could be that dma is disabled. 
That means a high system load when your hard drive is heavily accessed.
Check it with as su with: hdparm /dev/hdx or /dev/sdx where x is the letter of 
your hard drive.

Fabian

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