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Computer behaving oddly
Thursday, 7 February 2008 01:36 pmComputer is being annoying and I cannot pin down why. Suggestions and advice welcome. (Reminder: this machine runs Debian Etch/KDE.)
Basically, it's mostly fine, except that sometimes it runs very slowly. When it does this, the 'hard disk activity' LED lights constantly, and I can hear "chug chug chug chug.... chug chug chug chug..." noises from it. I can't see anything using 'ps wux' which would indicate what was causing this. However, by trial and error, it seems to be something to do with my iceweasel browser. I have no idea what, and it's not as straightforward as 'iceweasel runs, thigns break', but once I start opening several tabs and doing other stuff - which the machine coped fine with a few weeks ago - things start moving at a snail's pace and the computer becomes almost unusably slow. How do I work it out? It's driving me nuts.
Basically, it's mostly fine, except that sometimes it runs very slowly. When it does this, the 'hard disk activity' LED lights constantly, and I can hear "chug chug chug chug.... chug chug chug chug..." noises from it. I can't see anything using 'ps wux' which would indicate what was causing this. However, by trial and error, it seems to be something to do with my iceweasel browser. I have no idea what, and it's not as straightforward as 'iceweasel runs, thigns break', but once I start opening several tabs and doing other stuff - which the machine coped fine with a few weeks ago - things start moving at a snail's pace and the computer becomes almost unusably slow. How do I work it out? It's driving me nuts.
