I used the memtester from http://www.qcc.ca/~charlesc/software/memtester/ to test the memory to see if the memory was failing or a card was improperly installed.
The initial login screen takes five minutes or more to appear.
On Friday, February 28, 2003, at 03:56 PM, Margaret_Doll wrote:
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
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