RHELv4 and v5 - So slow as to be unusable.

[Romeo Theriault]

>
> ntp is on my list of suspects.  I've been considering running it under a
> tracing program so that I can watch the system calls and try to correlate
> them with the problem when it occurs.  But killing ntpd, or doing
> "/etc/init.d/ntpd stop" doesn't fix the problem.  I'll have to try turning
> it off, reboot, and run for a day without it and see what happens.  One
> frustration with this problem is that I only get one or two shots a day at
> "seeing" anything.
>
>        Gary


Odd problem, I might also try booting into another possibly older
kernel to see if that affects things at all.


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Romeo Theriault