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 <which takes 10 seconds normally> and it took
> like 30)
>
> Any idea as to what the problem is?
> --
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