Web suddenly slower, attachments won't attach
 

Recently installed debian lenny.
Running very well.
WM: ratpoison.
Suddenly, today, the internet runs much slower.
ONLY ON THIS MACHINE - the parallel windows machine, off of which I was successfully weaning myself, is not having this problem, so it's neither the router nor the actual internet connection.
Specifically: I can't attach a document in yahoo mail.
I tried it in iceweasel, same problem, so it's not the browser.
I piped the output of "top" for a minute or so to a text file, which I'm attaching.
Ideas?

Yike! Well - unless everything was running slow, it is unlikely to be a load problem.

A sudden slowdown can be due to a browser plugin, some malware running in the browser, or something like that. Note: iceweasel is the same as firefox.

Try chrome or opera. Try using the same browser and settings in windows.

Yahoo Mail attachments: This is usually due to a plugin like Yahoo Browser-plus.

firefox
http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/mai...ontext-21.html

chrome
http://www.google.com/support/forum/...b79168b6&hl=en

In both cases - disable the add-ons.

Bizarre - it seems to have cured itself.
I can't tell whether it's because I turned plug-ins off and then back on.

By the way, I was using opera, and I really didn't want to use Firefox or Chrome.
Next would have been IE? /jk

Resetting the plugins on Opera may have flushed a cache of some kind.