F7 now super slow, will it infect Fedora 8?

[Tim]

On Sun, 2008-02-03 at 21:57 -0500, Doug Purdy wrote:
> Since before Dec 25 both my FC2 and my F7 computers have been running
> super slow. Both machines also have XT and that ran fine in informal
> tests this weekend, that is, XT responded well and exhibited no
> slowness or crashes. 

"XT"?

If it weren't two computers, cooling would have been the first thing to
spring to mind (it could still be, if you're in a hot environment).
Things like fans and heatsinks gunked up with fluff stops them working
right, and some systems will slow the CPU down to stop it burning out.

The other thing that springs to mind with two computers, is whether
you've been compromised.  You could check for a rootkit, but this is
just a wild stab in the dark.

Taking minutes to finish booting could also point the finger at name
resolution not working, if you have services that need to know their
network addresses.

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[tim at bigblack ~]$ uname -ipr
2.6.23.12-52.fc7 i686 i386

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