Jim Douglas <jdz99@hotmail.com> wrote:<blockquote class="replbq" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> Fedora freezes and I'm not sure why Here are the symptoms. Things slow down over the course of 2-4 minutes then I can't do anything and have to turn the power off or if I'm lucky I can get to the terminal window and shutdown. It's only been happening the last couple of days and I don't know why. </blockquote>If your sound card is set to full-duplex it can eat up your cpu quickly. Turn off system sounds as well... see if that works for you, Ric ================================================ My father, Victor Moore (Vic) used to say: "There are two Great Sins in the world... ...the Sin of Ignorance, and ...the Sin of Stupidity. Only the former may be overcome." R.I.P. Dad. Linux user# 44256 Sign up at: http://counter.li.org/ ================================================ <hr size=1>Talk is cheap. Use Yahoo! Messenger to make PC-to-Phone calls. <a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail_us/taglines/postman7/*http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=39666/*http://beta.messenger.yahoo.com"> Great rates starting at 1¢/min.