Running kernel-2.6.9-1.11_FC2 is insanely slow
jbest at insightbb.com
jbest at insightbb.com
Mon Jan 10 16:53:20 UTC 2005
> There have been a lot of folk who've replied over the weekend. Thanks.
>
> Just to clarify, the problem is not that the new kernels boot slowly.
>
> The problem is that the whole system runs slowly.
>
> Someone said that 70 seconds was not slow for some systems. Yes.
> That's how long it takes for a complete boot for me on the OLD kernel.
> The 50 seconds time is to get the the first stage of the boot under the
> NEW kernel. The full boot time takes around 8 MINUTES!
>
> Logging in is similarly painfully slow.
>
> Starting up a terminal is similarly painfully slow. (20ish seconds to
> get a prompt under gnome-terminal compared to maybe 2 seconds under the
> old kernel!)
>
> I tried some people's suggestions, however. Removing quiet from the
> grub boot up produced a whole bunch of extra messages at the start of
> the boot, but nothing seemed to hang at any particular point.
>
> There's no significant problems (or differences) showing up in dmesg or
> the modules loaded that I can tell between the two kernels.
>
> If folk think that the output of this bootchart tool will truly be
> useful, I can give it a try, but this isn't simply limited to the boot
> process, so I'm less confident of that.
>
> Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > We need to have something with
> >
> >>which to guage whether your particular boot time is too long.
> >
> >
> > http://bootchart.sf.net
> >
> >
>
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In the old days of system administration, one of the first places I would
look when these slow down problems would occur is the swap space..
Is it possible your swap area became lost or corrupted? Just a thought.
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