Ubuntu is so slow

[OOzy Pal]

On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 7:45 PM, debiani386 <debiani386 at gmail.com> wrote:
> OOzy Pal wrote:
>  > Hello,
>  >
>  > My box started to be very slow. When I click on an icon, it take about
>  > 45 seconds for program to show up on the screen. My hard drive blinks
>  > every once and awhile during the 45s not steady blinking or on.
>  >
>  > Any help?
>  >
>  >
>  if you wait for a while, the hard disk will stop blinking and everything
>  will be normal.
>
>  This is because the Trackerd is reindexing your hard disk and that just
>  slows everything wayy down. What i did was to remove the trackerd from
>  my start up list (Administration -> Services -> uncheck trackerd)
>
>
>  --cj
>
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hmm, trackerd is not in the list of services!!!!

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OOzy
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