[PlanetCCRMA] slowing down?

[Oded Ben-Tal]

I'm experienceing a curious slowing down occasionally. I think it happenes 
when I have problems with the ethernet connection (ADSL at home; not very 
reliable) but I'm not entirely sure. My machine slows down to an 
unworkable crawl - it sometimes take is over 15 min. to boot, I have to 
wait 1-2 minutes to launch a terminal etc. 
Any ideas how to track the problem? 
Oh - I'm running RH9, planet-ccrma kernel 2-23-something-or-another.
thanks
Oded