RHELv4 and v5 - So slow as to be unusable.

[m.roth at 5-cent.us]

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.
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What runlevel? Any clues in /var/log/messages? Or dmesg?

      mark