Is there a disk optimizer for Linux. I've noticed it's starting to run really slow, and there isn't much on it at all, just what came with the distro (Fedora) basically.

Is there a way I can do a defrag and see if that'll speed things up?

You don't need to defrag linux filesystems. They store information in a more efficient manner then Windows does and thus are mostly self optimizing. The reason why your Fedora is probably slow is you probably have a ton of crap running that you don't need like web servers and such running in the background.

what does "hdparm -tT /dev/hda" tells you?
it might be a misconfiguration for your hard drive?

The command you posted doesn't do anything tricky.

jtshaw, your right about the server. Right now I have apache and mysql both running, along with open office, gftp, opera, blue fish and the gaim messenger, even still, I used to have the windows equilivent to all the same applications open and it would never bog down.

It's actually running good right now, hopefully it's done being slow.

It could be that the cron job or something was run. It will run daily at a predetermined time to clean your logs etc.,. and when that happens, your hdd is run and all the other processes gets slow.

however, it test what's the speed of transfering files!

ps -e

Then do killall <app>

Kill processes you think look dumb
If something goes wrong, then just restart

great suggestion, tearinox.

thats what i do on M$. once you do it a couple a times, oyu learn which ones have to stay on and which ones can be eliminated.
or you could just write a note.



btw another great thing about linux, no defrag!

I'll try the suggestions. I've noticed my hdd going nuts once or twice, wasn't sure what it was but now I think it was the log file being cleaned.

Maybe for newbies that killing stuff trick may work, but that is a tiresome... You could just go to the SysV-Init Editor and remove the services you don't want running.... And you mixed up stuff about the jtshaw's reply... he was talking about services... stuff that runs on background.... bluefish, gftp, opera and open office are "desktop-end-user" application... he's talking about: apache, mysql, proftpd, telnetd, bind (named), pop3d, imapd, and stuff like that... distributions "red-hat/mandrake like" are known for the huge number of services running...