Really, REALLY slow computer
zephod at cfl.rr.com
zephod at cfl.rr.com
Thu Apr 19 17:11:38 UTC 2007
----- Original Message -----
From: alan <alan at clueserver.org>
Date: Thursday, April 19, 2007 12:04 pm
Subject: Re: Really, REALLY slow computer
To: For users of Fedora <fedora-list at redhat.com>
> On Thu, 19 Apr 2007, 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%.
>
> My daughter's machine (which it about 100 mile away, unfortunatly)
> is
> having the same problem. It is a 32-bit AMD system. I will try
> and get
> logs dumped from her machine this weekend.
>
> Are you using the latest kernel? (I am not certai what the version
> number
> is on the latest FC6 kernel is.)
Yes, I've got the latest kernel, at least as of this morning:
$ uname -r
2.6.20-1.2944.fc6
Steve.
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