We have a small network with a server providing NIS, DNS, NFS and proxy
services. Both run on Mandrake, the clients are Mandrake 10 and the server
Mandrake 9.1. One user has noticed that her machine sometimes gets very, very
slow. A quick look at top doesn't show anything gobbling up huge amounts of
RAM or CPU time but it can take 30-40s to open OpenOffice, which is installed
as a local application, so I don't see it has a network issue. However it
takes 2s to open OpenOffice on the server which is the same hardware but with
512mb RAM instead of 256mb on the clients. When the client slows down the
server continues to zoom along as usual unaffected. The users are using KDE
as their desktop and if rebooted the machine appears to work fine for a while
and then grind to a halt again....any ideas?
Kevin.
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