S L O W S Y S T E M **SOLVED**

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Sat, 1 Jan 2022 22:20:24 -0600, Jay Ridgley wrote:
>Thanks Thomas and all the others, I discovered that the problem was 
>being caused by a Netgear monitoring task, once I shut it down the 
>problem went away.

Hi,

why does monitoring the router with another device slow down your Linux
computer? This makes no sense at all.

Are you really sure that it was the culprit?

>I will use it only when absolutely required, and I hope that is never.
>
>The task is part of the Nighrhawk app.

Snake oil can prevent or treat infections from coronaviruses. So now is
the right time to use such an app.

Apropos snake oil...

On Sat, 1 Jan 2022 11:54:22 -0600, Jay Ridgley wrote:
>Did a clamav scan and found nothing wrong.

...there are tools available to scan a Linux computer, such as
chkrootkit. Scanning a Linux computer with software aimed for
e-mail scanning on mail gateways, to detect viruses usually only aimed
to attack Microsoft Windows machines gains absolutely nothing. ClamAV
isn't suitable to scan a Linux computer.

That you used top for troubleshooting the performance issue was a good
step. It's the right tool for the first step of troubleshooting such an
issue.

Regards,
Ralf