Why is my system slowing down?

[Michael]

My computer (seemed) was slowing. Found out my cable modem (Webstar) was 
frequently reseting. Replaced it with a surfboard (motorola) and all is well 
again. Might wanto look into that.

On Tuesday 27 June 2006 09:17, Josef Lowder wrote:
> Yesterday, I noticed my system beginning to slow down quite significantly
> and I can't figure out why.  I've tried rebooting and seemed to get some
> improvement, but it is now still much slower than it has been working.
>
> Also, I had a strange incident in which the system seemed to dump a
> bunch (several dozen) files with apparently system-generated file names.
> Below is a small sample. When I examined some of these files, they
> seem to have come from some of my kmail archived files.
>
> -rw-rw-r--  1 joe  36864 Jun 25 06:10 binoK9SkIKa1N.bin
> -rw-rw-r--  1 joe 132926 Jun 25 06:44 bin9eiWHf5zec.bin
> -rw-rw-r--  1 joe 158476 Jun 25 08:14 binKTATslAhMv.bin
> -rw-rw-r--  1 joe  35954 Jun 25 08:14 binEsgNXhH2Kz.bin
> -rw-rw-r--  1 joe    508 Jun 25 08:23 bind83QVZHMwc.bin
> -rw-rw-r--  1 joe    437 Jun 25 08:26 binuNOVPDS7ye.bin
> -rw-rw-r--  1 joe 598007 Jun 25 08:34 binB2TNCImwda.bin
> -rw-rw-r--  1 joe  56732 Jun 25 08:50 binIANwfsaE3L.bin
> -rw-rw-r--  1 joe  63319 Jun 25 10:05 binYFzRX2du0W.bin
> -rw-rw-r--  1 joe  48571 Jun 25 10:05 binAj942ndTmV.bin
> -rw-rw-r--  1 joe   27149 Jun 26 05:04 jpgj6jJHsy9uW.jpg
> -rw-rw-r--  1 joe     296 Jun 26 05:28 gifzB6hpclzXW.gif
> -rw-rw-r--  1 joe     557 Jun 26 05:28 gifpKAMvhkScY.gif
> -rw-rw-r--  1 joe   51395 Jun 26 06:12 jpg4Ra14BJLHQ.jpg
> -rw-rw-r--  1 joe   39129 Jun 26 06:12 jpg2cCRvBtXCe.jpg
> -rw-rw-r--  1 joe   39129 Jun 26 06:27 jpgTbiiegT73r.jpg
>
> In addition to those listed, there were many .pdf files and
> .doc files and some .gz and some .zip suffixed files plus
> some others, the suffix of which I did not recognize.
>
> As nearly as I can tell, all of these dumped files are copies
> of files that are still on my system.  I am suspicious that
> this may have something to do with kmail.  Kmail seems to
> be working fine, but it sometimes takes a long time to load
> and other times loads very quickly.  After rebooting, it can
> take 15 to 25 seconds to load when first started, and then
> if I close it and start it again, it takes only 4 or 5 seconds to
> load.
>
> Other apps also take much longer to load the first time
> and then load much quicker if I close and reopen them.
>
> Here are some examples of first load times followed by second load times:
> kmail - 14 to 18 seconds then 4 seconds
> firefox - 17 seconds 3 seconds
> konqueror - 6 seconds then 3 seconds
> kwrite - 5 seconds then 2 seconds
> oo writer - 21 seconds then 5 seconds
> terminal shell 3 seconds then 1 second
> kview - 3 seconds then 2 seconds
> ksnap - 5 seconds then 2 seconds
> home - 8 seconds the 1 second
>
> Most of these are fairly consistent in their first and second load times,
> but kmail is not.  Here are the first and second load time variances
> after loading other programs in between:
>
> kmail 7 seconds then 4 seconds
> kmail 13 seconds then not at all then 10 seconds
> firefox 17 seconds then 3 seconds
> kmail 20 seconds then 5 seconds
> firefox 13 seconds then 3 seconds
> terminal 11 seconds then 2 seconds
> kmail 26 seconds then 8 seconds
> kmail 50 seconds then 3 seconds
>
> Isn't there some utility that allows one to graphically monitor
> processing times interactively?
>
> What should normal load times be?
>
> Any suggestions how to restore the system speed I used to have?
>
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