[olug] Strange GNOME issue

[Mark A. Martin]

It would help if you could narrow your problem down a bit.  It sounds
like some process or set of processes is greatly taxing your resources. 
You can use "ps aux | less" or "top" to determine which processes are
hogging the processor and/or memory.  vmstat is also a useful tool. 
Another thing to check is whether the system is performing a lot of disk
accesses.  If so, you should be able to hear the disk spinning madly,
see the indicator light frequently lit, if you have one, or you can be
more sophisticated and use vmstat.  This could indicate lots of
swapping.  (Memory problems and swapping seem unlikely since you have
plenty of memory.)  Once you've identified the process or processes at
fault, then you can begin to figure out what to do about it.

Good luck,

Mark
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Mark A. Martin					Dept of Applied Mathematics
http://www.amath.washington.edu/~mmartin	University of Washington
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