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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Slow UNIX system this morning Post 302722967 by Mick_Dundee on Monday 29th of October 2012 06:25:20 AM
Old 10-29-2012
Slow UNIX system this morning
Hi, what would be the first things to check on a system that normally works fine, and is not so fine this morning ? Its accessing menus and various other screens 100x slower than normal.

Version: UnixWare 5 7.1.3 i386 SCO UNIX_SVR5

I have tried this pf -ef|grep paulc and found a huge list of "defunct" processes from this user, not sure if that has anything to do with it ?
 

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