On Mon, 17 Jul 2006 22:54:58 EDT, Richard Querin said: > I ran an strace at the point when things were running quickly and I've now > run one now that it's slow. I compared the two the best that I could (it's a > huge file) and didn't find a huge difference except for the fact that it's > loading some wxGtk related libs in the newer one (since I've installed > python-wgtk2.6 since doing the fresh install). I tried uninstalling the > wx-related stuff but still no change. It's quite possible that the actual pattern of system calls as reported by strace is almost the same, but due to disk fragmentation, the system is spending lots of time seeking back and forth now. Is the disk light on solid when this is happening?
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