FC4 to FC5 upgrade slow

[Mark Haney]

Andy Green wrote:
> Mark Haney wrote:
>
>> This box is a dual Opteron box with 4GB RAM.  Should it be that slow?
>
> It sounds to me like it is using swap, no matter what the RAM on the 
> board is.  IIRC Ctrl-Alt-F2 will get you a shell prompt, a quick
>
> top
>
> might be informative.
>
> -Andy
>
Well, when I looked at it before, it wasn't swapping out, I still had 
about 1GB RAM free.  However, all the running processes (anaconda, etc) 
from the installation were 'Sleeping'.  I wasn't seeing much disk 
activity, or activity to the CD ROM drive. 



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Mark Haney
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