I used top and dmesg before everthing slows, but nothing out of the ordinary shows. CPU idle is around 95%-98%. Most messages in dmesg is from packets being dropped by my firewall.
The hardware I'm running is a AMI MB with a 800Mhz Intel PIII, 1GB ram, floppy, CD, hard drive, SoundBlaster card, two NIC's, both are Netgear FA311--that's it.
hmm nothing out of the ordinary - I had one set of rh 9 boxes that would segfault and not run some common commands, and one set that had no problems. Just doing a rough diff between the sets showed that the working set had packages from freshrpms, while the bad et had packages from... er - a different place.
Just out of curiosity, are you running a stock rh 9 kernel, or self-compiled? Is your system up to date?
BTW which version of java are you running?
Also, you mentioned mozilla 1.3 - does the box have problems with mozilla 1.2 from redhat, or with the 1.4 from rawhide? (does the problem happen always when using mplayer, or when using mozilla, or a combination, or at random?
Joe
