RHEL AS 4 U2 Slow

[Brenda Radford]

Waldher, Travis R wrote:

>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Rick Stevens [mailto:rstevens at vitalstream.com]
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>>>Any ideas?
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>>Well, it doesn't seem to be process or memory related.  It could be
>>context switching issues.  Try doing a "vmstat 5" for, say a minute,
>>then CTRL-C to get out of it.  Look at the "cs" column towards the
>>right.  If that gets to 5 digits, we have something that's causing
>>context switch problems and there's a bit more investigation we need
>>to do.
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>>Also look at the output of "dmesg" for clues.
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>I don't know if it was brought up, but it could also be his network
>settings.
>
>XWindows, even local to the box needs to be able to talk to itself on an
>IP level.  If your network settings are messed up, your computer will
>still start in to a GUI, but it will respond dog slow.   Sometimes with
>no error message, telling you why it is running slow.
>
>Travis
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Travis,

Decided to reinstall last Friday without doing the disk partitions 
manually, and now it is performing beautifully!
I don't understand why disk partitions would slow things down, and 
neither did anyone I asked about it, but that
is the only thing I did differently.   Not sure if there were also 
problems with network settings (it wasn't giving me
any error messages), but it seems to be all cleared up now. (I hope I am 
not speaking too soon this time!)

Thanks,

Brenda