RHELv4 and v5 - So slow as to be unusable.

[Mr. Paul M. Whitney]

Do you have any other software installed? anti-virus? other third-party software?  It could be a memory leak.

Paul W.




On Oct 4, 2010, at 1:58 PM, Gary E Barnes wrote:

> The past week I upgraded our RHELv3 machines to v4.  Previously we had 
> several v3's, one v4, and one v5.  The v5 has never worked.  Now the new 
> v4's are acting up.
> 
> Boot the machine, things are fine.  Wait overnight and the machine may 
> take ten minutes to unlock the screen, may take several 10's of seconds to 
> do an ls, and generally simply isn't usable.
> 
> The v4's if you reboot them seem to be fine for the day.
> The v5 if you reboot it is fine for maybe 15 minutes.
> 
> The v4's, there will be a load average of 3 to 4, but top says nothing 
> whatsoever (other than top and the xterm) is running.
> The v5, there will be a load average of 0.1 or less and top again says 
> nothing is running.
> 
> SELinux is turned off.  Firewall is turned off.  I've even tried turning 
> off every service that isn't vital to being able to simply boot the 
> machines.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
>        Gary
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