Xfce is very slow, part 2

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Tue, 2014-01-14 at 19:18 +0100, killermoehre wrote:
> > ==> WARNING: A firmware update for this drive may be available,
> > see the following Seagate web pages:
> > http://knowledge.seagate.com/articles/en_US/FAQ/207931en
> > http://knowledge.seagate.com/articles/en_US/FAQ/213891en
> > …
> Maybe you can try to install to install the firmware updates as
> mentioned by the tool.
> To check if your drive is slow and causing the bottle neck, you can use
> a disk stress test like bonnie++. If it's slow, you got a bad hard
> drive. Happens sometimes.

I missed this, indeed the firmware update might fix issues.

> > $>free
> >              Gesamt Belegt Frei Gemeinsam Puffer Cached
> > Speicher:

Try to remember that you could run

LANG=C free

;).