I don't run cron jobs. On Thursday 23 October 2003 09:54 am, Bart Garst said: ~ My suggestion is to look at what cron jobs may have been running at the ~ time you tried to start kspread. ~ ~ I know some crone jobs on my machine slow it down just like you ~ described. ~ ~ Use 'man 5 crontab' to learn how to read '/etc/crontab' and try to match ~ the times. ~ ~ Bart ~ ~ ~ ~ On Thu, 2003-10-23 at 09:16, Michael Havens wrote: ~ > I was told that I should keep my computer running all the time (or at least ~ > that linux was designed/could do that; so yesterday I turned it on and went ~ > to school for the day. When I got home the machine was still going (which ~ > was a good sign) but when I loaded a program it took three times as long. ~ > (for instance: I loaded kspread and it took ~ > like 30) ~ > ~ > Any idea as to what the problem is? ~ > -- ~ > <:-)~MIKE~(-:> ~ > ~ > --------------------------------------------------- ~ > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us ~ > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: ~ > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss ~ ~ ~ --------------------------------------------------- ~ PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us ~ To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: ~ http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss ~ -- <:-)~MIKE~(-:>