Really, REALLY slow computer

[Billy Davis]

We had this same problem 18 months ago with RHEL 3.  Turns out it was a 
memory problem.   As long as we ran with 512MB, everything ran fast and 
fine.  But, when we increased the memory to 1GB and higher, something 
happened to slow the system to aan unbelievable crawl.  Seems like there 
was a bios upgrade from Intel that fixed the problem.

Bdavis

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%.
>
> During boot I get these two error messages:
>
> ...
> Starting udev: Wait timeout. Will continue in the background. [FAILED]
> ...
>
> and
>
> ...
> Warning: Error inserting freq_table
> (/lib/modules/2.6.20-1.2944.fc6/kernel/drivers/cpufreq/freq_table.ko):
> Required key not available.
> ...
>
> The CPU frequency monitor applet show CPU0 to be running between 1.60
> and 2.13GHz.
>
> I checked through messages and these couple of things look suspicious:
>
> ACPI: exception (acpi_processor-0677): AE_NOT_FOUND, Processor Device is
> not present [10060707]
>
> This message was repeated for the 2nd processor.
>
> speedstep-centrino with X86_SPEEDSTEP_CENTRINO_ACPI config is depreciated.
>   Use X86_ACPI_CPUFREQ (acpi-cpufreq) instead
>
> ata: 0x01F0 IDE port busy
> ata: conflict with IDE 0.
> ata: 0x0170 IDE port busy
> ata: conflict with ide1
> ata_piix: probe of 000:00:1f.2 failed with error -16
>
> Does anyone have any insight of these messages or whwre to start looking
> to fix this.
>
> Thanks,
> Steve
>
>