israel.garcia at cimex.com.cu wrote:
>> Hi, I've installed CentOS5.2 on an INTEL Core 2 Duo (Intel(R) Core(TM)2
>> Duo CPU E6550 @ 2.33GHz), 4 GB RAM (MemTotal: 4072176 kB) and>
>> my system gets sevarel minutes to startup, specially on udev daemon.
>> Once the system is UP, every command I run gets 100% CPU and every is
>> very slowly at the point yum -y update never ends. The system installed
>> by default this kernel 2.6.18-53.el5PAE. I would like to know what's
>> wrong with my server. Do I have to install another kernel? Can you help
>> me?
>With 4G I'd install the x86_64 version. Not that I think that PAE is the
>reason for this slow behaviour (last reporter who had that somewhere on
>bugs.centos.org had bad RAM), but ...
>Cheers,
>
>Ralph
Well, I ran memtest86 and I got no errors….I installed this kernel 2.6.18-92.1.10.el5 and everything was very fast BUT, it only recognize 3GB RAM. :-( I installed CentOS5.2 64 x86_64 bits and I got the same slow performance.. On x86_64 I installed the latest kernel and nothing.. L
Regards..Israel