256Kb RAM?! Huh! Sounds like XT with 4,77MHz 8086 CPU ----- Original Message ----- From: "Margaret_Doll" <Margaret_Doll@brown.edu> To: "psyche" <psyche-list@redhat.com> Sent: Friday, February 28, 2003 9:56 PM Subject: System slow down > I have a Dell station, 665 MHz, 256Kb Cache, 256 Kb ram, that is > unuseable because it is too slow. The system used to be fairly quick; > we had been using it as a web server. Now there is a delay in any > graphics display, "ps", "vi", "man", and "rpm" process. I would > appreciate any suggestions of where I should look for the problem. > > We had two disks on the system. The system disk is a Maxtor 52049U4; > the auxillary disk is a WDC WD800BB-00CAA1. > > I repartitioned the Maxtor disk and gave all the system partitions > plenty of space: > > /dev/hda6 280005 102347 163202 39% / > /dev/hda1 77750 14180 59556 20% /boot > /dev/hda8 7036620 32828 6646348 1% /home > none 127064 0 127064 0% /dev/shm > /dev/hda7 256667 8250 235165 4% /tmp > /dev/hda2 8926100 1157000 7315668 14% /usr > /dev/hda5 1019864 43548 924508 5% /var > > > swapon -s > Filename Type Size Used Priority > /dev/hda3 partition 2048276 0 -1 > > > I installed RedHat 8.0 as a new system. I have since upgraded the > system to 2.4.18-24.8.0. It is still sloooow. > > One at a time, I have taken out the second disk, pulled out the > ethernet connection, and stopped the X display on the system. I > normally use GNOME. > > vmstat > > procs memory swap io system > cpu > r b w swpd free buff cache si so bi bo in > cs us sy id > 0 0 0 0 134564 14628 51832 0 0 3 1 517 27 > 0 0 100 > > where in looks suspicious. The count was just as high when I rebooted > without an ethernet connection. > > Looking in /proc/stat > > intr 9922572 9818502 219 0 4 4 83606 6 2 1 0 0 0 1704 0 11329 7195 > disk_io: (3,0):(11299,7200,113982,4099,46842) (3,1):(74,62,838,12,96) > > /proc/interrupts > > CPU0 > 0: 9837506 XT-PIC timer > 1: 219 XT-PIC keyboard > 2: 0 XT-PIC cascade > 5: 83853 XT-PIC eth0 > 8: 1 XT-PIC rtc > 10: 0 XT-PIC Intel ICH 82801AA > 11: 0 XT-PIC usb-uhci > 12: 1704 XT-PIC PS/2 Mouse > 14: 11341 XT-PIC ide0 > 15: 7195 XT-PIC ide1 > NMI: 0 > ERR: 0 > > > > > > -- > Psyche-list mailing list > Psyche-list@redhat.com > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list > -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
