Topic: e-smith really slow!!!

[Emil]

Hi everyone!! If somebody knows why suddenly the whole e-smith system got very slow, especially when using the e-smith text based manager.It takes forever to complete tasks which previously took only seconds! I havent been messing with it, so I have no idea what caused this to happen.
Thanks in advance!!!

-Emil-

P.S. Im using e-smith 4.1.2

[Brad Jennings]

Are you using RAV antivirus to check your emails?  Just curious....because I had a problem that did the same thing....but it was antivirus related.

[Emil]

Nope, no anti-virus software....Im running LINUX there thou, and the whole e-smith system is running incredibly slow!!!

[Duncan]

Sorry, cant really answer your question. Perhaps you can run top at the command line and see if any processes are running that shouldnt be.

Brad, i am interested in the problem you had with RAV. I have a site that dies after about three days when running ravscan. It starts but wont end, consuming all the memory on the system.

Regards Duncan

[robert]

hi brad

ive got a RAV issue -
all seems well BUT
the virus scan (on a 1.7ghz celeron 4)
seems to take so much processing that the serial modem to
the internet drops out.

i found another issue that said to lower the HD interupt
frequency by 'hdparm -u 1 /dev/hda' etc
BEWARE THE HDPARM MAN PAGE WARNS TO POSSIBLE HORRORS WITH THIS!
but i reckon that probably only applies to old systems.

this has improved the access to the serial port (no longer assumes dead after lack of 2 reponses) but still when
RAV kicks in the internet often drops out.

any ideas from your viewpoint would be appreciated.
kind regards RobBrad Jennings wrote:
>
> Are you using RAV antivirus to check your emails?  Just
> curious....because I had a problem that did the same
> thing....but it was antivirus related.