kernel 2.6 very sluggish

[Ron Morley]

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On Tuesday 23 December 2003 05:59, Sean Estabrooks, using recycled electrons, 
wrote:
> On Mon, 22 Dec 2003 16:15:45 -0800
>
> "Calderon, Jay" <jcaldero at asante.com> wrote:
<original "top" output and good suggestions snipped>

Something else to consider trying is playing with hdparm, specifically the 
read-ahead settings on your disk drives.  You may be able to increase 
performance by increasing the read-ahead parm.  However, I'm afraid that Sean 
may be right and the only thing that will really help is more RAM.  

If you've got all of your data backed up, you do backup don't you?, you might 
consider swapping to a faster disk drive and restoring everything or adding 
another drive and putting more swap on it.  If you do add another drive for 
more swap make sure the swap priorities are the same on both drives or you'll 
end up just swapping to the drive with the highest priority.  

HTH,
Ron

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