[lug] It slows down

[Scott A. Herod]

I had a similar problem that I finally attributed to a CDROM drive
that would spray interrupts.  It wasn't needed in the box so I removed
it and haven't had problems since.

Scott

David Morris wrote:
> 
> I actually have this same problem on occation...though I quickly found
> my source of the problem.
> 
> For me, Netscape periodically eats up all CPU time slowing the
> computer to a crawl (about 1/4 speed for everything at best).  Even if
> you close netscape when this is happening, there is still a ghost
> process in the background eating up CPU time that did not get killed.
> 
> Use the program 'top' as someone else suggested.  Top will order
> processes by CPU consumption percentage, and also list memory
> consumption percentage.  Look for anything using an excessive ammount
> of CPU or Memory, and kill any such process (Use 'kill -9 ####' where
> #### is the process id).
> 
> For me, checking for such a ghost process is second nature now.  I
> have an alias setup that will kill any netscape processes running and
> restore my system to healthy status.
> 
> --David