Really, REALLY slow computer

[zephod at cfl.rr.com]

----- Original Message -----
From: alan <alan at clueserver.org>
Date: Thursday, April 19, 2007 12:04 pm
Subject: Re: Really, REALLY slow computer
To: For users of Fedora <fedora-list at redhat.com>

> On Thu, 19 Apr 2007, zephod at cfl.rr.com wrote:
> 
> > So,
> > new job and a shiny new HP Duo Core computer with 2G RAM and twin 
> 250G> ATA drives, loaded with Windows XP of course. The 1st thing I 
> do is to
> > load FC6 on the 2nd of the disks. After 2 days (!) I have everything
> > loaded and updated but the system is running really, and I mean 
> REALLY> slow. It takes about 15 mins to boot up and 5 to log in. 
> Both processors
> > are heavily loaded but yet top shows nothing out of the ordinary, 
> memory> usage is abot 15%.
> 
> My daughter's machine (which it about 100 mile away, unfortunatly) 
> is 
> having the same problem.  It is a 32-bit AMD system.  I will try 
> and get 
> logs dumped from her machine this weekend.
> 
> Are you using the latest kernel?  (I am not certai what the version 
> number 
> is on the latest FC6 kernel is.)

Yes, I've got the latest kernel, at least as of this morning:
$ uname -r
2.6.20-1.2944.fc6

Steve.