%% chandrachud nanduri <nmchandrachud@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: cn> Hi Guys , Off late , I have noticed that my system has become very cn> slow . I have GNOME desktop environment as my default environment cn> . I do not have many services on . Any application , as small as a cn> Konsole takes ages to open . The Office Applications takes cn> centuries to open . How do I make my system speed up . Do I have cn> to reinstall? Have you made any changes to your system recently? When things are starting up slowly, is the system busy? Do you hear disk access (indicating swapping) or, if you have a system monitor on your toolbar do you see lots of activity? Or, is your system quiet but things just take a long time to get going? In the former case, I'd use top or similar to see if anything is running on your system and taking up a lot of resources, perhaps that you don't realize. In the latter case, check your /etc/hosts file and make sure there's an entry for your system, and/or that you can resolve your hostname through DNS. Most applications in UNIX, especially graphical apps, do some kind of network access and if your system can't resolve its own hostname it _really_ slows things down. cn> Also , my friends say that GNOME is much slower than KDE . Is this cn> true ? No. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Paul D. Smith <psmith@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> HASMAT--HA Software Mthds & Tools "Please remain calm...I may be mad, but I am a professional." --Mad Scientist ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- These are my opinions---Nortel Networks takes no responsibility for them. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
