System slowing down to a stall.

[Michael A. Peters]

On 12/13/2004 08:22:28 AM, Satish Balay wrote:
> On Tue, 14 Dec 2004, Divided By 0 wrote:
> 
> > So is there anything that can show me what's eating my system up?
> Anything
> > syspicious I could check?
> 
> For one - 'free' is a better tool to measure memory usage.  And try
> the following: to see if the memory usage (used -/+ buffers/cache)
> decreases:
> 
> free
> rm /etc/prelink.cache
> /etc/cron.daily/prelink
> free

Rather than remove /etc/cron.daily/prelink - copy it outside of /etc/ 
cron.daily so it can be restored if it's not the issue.

It's quite useful to have.