Arch just got painfully slow (for the third time)

arch has slowly been getting slower bit by bit, but I let it slide for a while. started up my laptop today and everything is painfully slow. Pacman takes a couple minutes just to retrieve new update lists, yaourt takes minutes before displaying anything, when I start X/Openbox it's about 5 or 10 minutes before I can even right click open a menu. Yesterday, I was opening up GIMP in a matter of seconds, but it just took about a minute or two to load. Can't imagine this'd be a hardware issue because the laptop is a few months old and hasn't had any problems - other OSes on the drive load fine and all. My / partition is ext3 and has a bit under 1GB of free space - I didn't realize how much space I needed to distribute everything when I formatted everything and I've been meaning to repartition the drive. Is there any chance that could be what's slowing down my computer so much?
Last edited by sa (2008-10-02 03:40:47)

[sa@psd ~]$ mount
/dev/sda7 on / type ext3 (rw)
none on /dev type ramfs (rw)
none on /proc type proc (rw)
none on /sys type sysfs (rw)
none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw)
none on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw)
/dev/sda5 on /boot type ext3 (rw)
/dev/sda8 on /home type jfs (rw)
/dev/sda1 on /ntfs type fuseblk (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,allow_other,blksize=4096)
[sa@psd ~]$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda7 8.0G 6.5G 1.1G 87% /
none 1.9G 0 1.9G 0% /dev/shm
/dev/sda5 43M 17M 25M 40% /boot
/dev/sda8 55G 4.2G 51G 8% /home
/dev/sda1 100G 39G 62G 39% /ntfs
[sa@psd ~]$
How can I measure disk activity?
Something else must be happening because even the bash prompt at startup after logging in takes a little while to show up. I'm not sure what to do
Last edited by sa (2008-09-25 00:56:29)

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