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 
>
>> 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.
>
> Well usually the processes that would rather be doing something else 
> are blocked on IO if they are blocked at all.  On top this would show 
> up on top as a lot on CPU on "system" and no idle CPU.  Maybe there is 
> some problem with the install kernel vs your board?  Try
>
> dmesg
>
> and see if there is some spew of something going on, maybe with your 
> HDD.  Also I guess check your
>
> cat /proc/cpuinfo
>
> and also see if anything on
>
> cat /proc/interrupts
>
> is cranking up at a crazy rate.  Another trick is to do
>
> ps -Af
>
> and look at the last few processes, usually that list is in order of 
> spawning, so you can see if a scriptlet is running something that is 
> making it stick.
>
> -Andy
>
Well I"m not seeing anything really out of the ordinary.  In dmesg, I'm 
seeing some SELinux 'denied' messages, but not a lot of them.  The 
CPUinfo looks correct.  I'm seeing a lot of interrupts in IO-APIC timer, 
and ps -Af doesn't show anything hanging that I can see.

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Mark Haney
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