On Tuesday 06 July 2004 11:11, david jamison wrote:
> Well, much to my embarrassment the problem seems to have gone away. We
> upgraded two desktops from 9.1 to 10.0 and they were both appallingly slow
> on opening menus and applications (several seconds to open the main desktop
> menu). After using them for a while they seem to have settled down.. not a
> very satisfactory outcome as I still don't know why they were slow in the
updatedb is probably the cause of the slowdown. It really hammers that hard
disk.
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