[K12OSN] is FC5 smp kernel slow

[Burke Almquist]

Yes, I'd definitely be using more ram if you are actually hitting the  
swap.
Is the swap just cached stuff or are you actually hitting it?

On Oct 30, 2006, at 9:51 PM, Barry Cisna wrote:

> Hello Listers,
>
> Just installed K12LTSP v5.0 on a 2.4 ghz intel/dual core desktop
> box,that I thought would be pretty snappy for experimenting with.  
> FC did
> install the smp kernel,of course,and this only has 360 MB of ram. It
> seems like it is going to boot up fast when the services are all  
> loading
> but by the time it is getting to a desktop,it seem very slow, getting
> the desktop drawn. When i was trying to get all the software installed
> that i had copied from one of my previous server,lots,,of rpm's it  
> just
> kept getting slower and slower. It does show about half of available
> swap was used, but both cpu's never showed over 5-6 % all the time. By
> the time I booted one client to this server everything seems very
> mushy/slow. Do i simply need more ram for this box,or has others
> experienced the smp kernel being slow? My oldie AMD 1.0 GHZ with 364MB
> of ram  experimental was much snappier than this box.
> Any grizzled sysadmins have any thoughts?..
>
> Thanks,
>
> Barry Cisna
>
> westcentral school
>
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