Super-slow response, not quite dead

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Thu, Sep 30, 2004 at 08:35:11PM -0400, Tim Rutherford wrote:

> Matt asked if there was hard-disk activity during the long waits:
> 
> not generally, the disk access light was mostly off. 
> 
> I've reverted to Preview on that machine, but I'm willing to
> re-install Sounder 9 for some specific tests if anyone can think of
> some. I see (from Oliver Grawert, later in thread) a suggestion to
> look at "cat /proc/cpuinfo" would show. Is that worth trying? Is there
> anything more? (for the time to re-install plus 1/2 hour for the menu
> <G>).

Try installing the "linux-686-smp" package and see if that is any better.

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 - mdz