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#5 Re: Getting my computer back - or - where's the processing power? Posted by yeti (84.133.xx.xx) on Thu 29 Dec 2005 at 01:40 I had some problem with programs starting extremely slow in Gnome some weeks ago and some prorams even took a rest between quitting and the vanishing of the window. A while I guessed it could be something related to fonts and some day I found the fc-cache command... After rebuilding some font indices or sth like that with this command, I am happy with my 500MHz-ish Gnome-on-Sarge-system again. Another performance killer is java. I tried Blackdown-1.4.x, Sun-Java-1,4.x amd 1.5.x but all of them show the same misbehaviour here: Sometimes java-vms don't terminate and are eating up lotsa CPU%... Another ugly browser realated performance robbery is caused by too many flash trash, animated gifs, non amoking java and all the other eye hurting bullshit of the web of today. If you need to visit such sites, close the windows, when not reading them instead of letting them lay arround a long time. Or try to find the same contents somwhere in a less eye hurting presentation... Too less RAM and even SWAP are classical reasons too but if the system worked and not too much new stuff was installed, this shouldn't be your problem. Little helpers like top, pree, ps, ... will tell that quickly... Probably your system suffers a different disease, but why not start a FAQ about this topic?

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