My first bet is RAM card. Can you open the CPU and just unplug one at time (how many?) the ram cards until you get off the delay? Even with 32MB of RAM you can just boot the system at runlevel 3. I had sometimes this situation also, maybe a card not properly pluged, or a oxydated one. In this case we use to clean the card with a rubber. RSalles On Fri, 2003-02-28 at 17:56, Margaret_Doll wrote: > 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 > > -- Renato Salles <maillist@brturbo.com> RSNET -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
