On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 06:13:38PM +0100, M. Fioretti wrote:
On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 10:52:37 AM -0600, Rick Sewill (rsewill@gmail.com) wrote:
http://freesoftware.zona-m.net/help-request-why-is-my-linux-so-damn-slow
You have a very interesting problem.
that's the same thing my wife usually tells herself when looking at me :-)
May I ask, what is the "purpose" of this system? Is it a server?
One reason it has so much memory is that it was my intention to also do some video editing with it (but I haven't gotten to that yet), and re-ordering, geotagging etc, lots of digital pictures. Another is that sometimes, I have to do lots of heavy perl- or shell processing on huge (hundreds of MBytes) amount of text in the background, so I wanted to be sure that this wouldn't slow me down while writing,
Hmm. I don't recall from the original posting, is this a 64-bit version of LInux? If not, and if you have a LOT of RAM (and assuming you're running a 32-bit PAE kernel) you could be running into a shortage of memory in the lower 3 gigs where the kernel keeps important data structures when doing PAE.