Re: Incredibly slow to boot - any ideas? - SOLVED
- From: N.Pauli <npauli@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 03 Apr 2006 18:24:13 +0100 (BST)
On Thu, 30 Mar, Philippe De Ryck wrote:
On Thu, 2006-03-30 at 11:45 +0100, N.Pauli wrote:
Dear All,the harddisk drive light is burning constantly. It is as if there is some process that never completes, takes a long time to time out and restarts itself whenever I launch an app. Once I'm in, apps seem
All of a sudden my machine has become incredibly slow to boot up and to launch anything - boot up took over 5 minutes and launching an app like Mozilla or OpenOffice can take just as long. All the while
to run fairly normally. I've looked at 'top' and can't see any culprit there. I had this happen once before and it was solved by making sure that nothing was plugged in to a usb port while booting up or
even logging on. The last significant things I have done prior to this happening do a normal update and upgrade using Synaptic and install Liferea.
/ unstable and the 2.6.12-1-386 kernel.
Can anybody give me any clues on where I can start looking to resolve this? The machine is a 1100 Mhz Intel Celeron with 256 Mb RAM so it shouldn't be struggling. I'm running Debian GNU/Linux testing
Thanks,
Nigel
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Nigel Pauli
Network Manager
St. John's School, Northwood
Just an idea, but you might look into HDD-trouble. See what "hdparm
-tT /dev/..." says. See what "smartctl -a /dev/..." says (good
explanation can be found here:
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/6983).
Maybe a monitor for disk activity can be useful too (gkrellm for example
shows activity and speed).
Thanks for all the advice and help. In the end it did turn out to be hardware related and not the fault of GConf. I'd run 'hdparm -tT /dev/hda' in single user mode and when running from a live disk and seen only a marginal improvement in the timing of buffered disk reads but a smartctl self test returned no errors even though it took 21 minutes rather than 2 minutes to run I was just about to take out the hard drive to run it in a different machine when a colleague suggested taking out a memory module.
As soon as I took them both out it seemed a very good idea - one was 128Mb and the other 256Mb from different manufacturers. I returned only the 256Mb module, rebooted and everything flew.
I'm going to keep monitoring the system for a while but I do reckon that I now have a happy ending.
Once again, thanks everyone for all your help and advice.
Nigel
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Nigel Pauli
Network Manager
St. John's School, Northwood
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