Re: Running kernel-2.6.9-1.11_FC2 is insanely slow

>  There have been a lot of folk who've replied over the weekend. 
> Thanks.
>  
>  Just to clarify, the problem is not that the new kernels boot slowly.
>  
>  The problem is that the whole system runs slowly.
>  
>  Someone said that 70 seconds was not slow for some systems.  Yes. 
>  That's how long it takes for a complete boot for me on the OLD kernel. 
>  The 50 seconds time is to get the the first stage of the boot under the 
>  NEW kernel.  The full boot time takes around 8 MINUTES!
>  
>  Logging in is similarly painfully slow.
>  
>  Starting up a terminal is similarly painfully slow. (20ish seconds to 
>  get a prompt under gnome-terminal compared to maybe 2 seconds under the 
>  old kernel!)
>  
>  I tried some people's suggestions, however.  Removing quiet from the 
>  grub boot up produced a whole bunch of extra messages at the start of 
>  the boot, but nothing seemed to hang at any particular point.
>  
>  There's no significant problems (or differences) showing up in dmesg or 
>  the modules loaded that I can tell between the two kernels.
>  
>  If folk think that the output of this bootchart tool will truly be 
>  useful, I can give it a try, but this isn't simply limited to the boot 
>  process, so I'm less confident of that.
>  
>  Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>  > Hi
>  > 
>  >  We need to have something with
>  > 
>  >>which to guage whether your particular boot time is too long.  
>  > 
>  > 
>  > http://bootchart.sf.net
>  > 
>  > 
>  
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In the old days of system administration, one of the first places I would
look when these slow down problems would occur is the swap space.. 
Is it possible your  swap area became lost or corrupted?  Just a thought.

Running kernel-2.6.9-1.11_FC2 is insanely slow

[Christopher Calzonetti]

If that was the case, wouldn't the old kernel be similarly affected?

jbest(a)insightbb.com wrote:
>  
>  
>  In the old days of system administration, one of the first places I would
>  look when these slow down problems would occur is the swap space.. 
>  Is it possible your  swap area became lost or corrupted?  Just a thought. 
>   
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Christopher Calzonetti, MFCF C&O Software Specialist
     mailto:[e-mail],ca   phone:[phone] x7516