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Author: Michael Havens
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Subject: Slow system
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 <which takes 10 seconds
normally> and it took ~ > like 30)
~ >
~ > Any idea as to what the problem is?
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