Really, REALLY slow computer
zephod at cfl.rr.com
zephod at cfl.rr.com
Thu Apr 19 17:17:35 UTC 2007
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak" <mjc at avtechpulse.com>
Date: Thursday, April 19, 2007 11:55 am
Subject: Re: Really, REALLY slow computer
To: For users of Fedora <fedora-list at redhat.com>
> zephod at cfl.rr.com wrote:
> > So,
> > new job and a shiny new HP Duo Core computer with 2G RAM and twin
> 250G> ATA drives, loaded with Windows XP of course. The 1st thing I
> do is to
> > load FC6 on the 2nd of the disks. After 2 days (!) I have everything
> > loaded and updated but the system is running really, and I mean
> REALLY> slow. It takes about 15 mins to boot up and 5 to log in.
> Both processors
> > are heavily loaded but yet top shows nothing out of the ordinary,
> memory> usage is abot 15%.
>
> Bad news: I have a HP DC7700. It is unusable with FC6. Don't even
> bother.
Is this news anecdotal or do you have a link or e-mail you can point me to?
> Good news: It is OK with FC7T3 (certain kernel arguments are
> required in
> grub.conf, something about "noapci", I forget the exact details
> right now).
>
> The newer kernel on FC7T3 has much better support for the onboard
> devices.
OK, I've kicked off a bittorrent for FC7T3. I'll see how that goes.
> My only problem at the moment is that the system clock loses time
> even
> though the nptd server is running.
>
> - Mike
The ntpd server might be running but is it connecting to its peer servers?
Steve.
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