Mark Haney wrote:
This box is a dual Opteron box with 4GB RAM. Should it be that slow?
It sounds to me like it is using swap, no matter what the RAM on the
Well, when I looked at it before, it wasn't swapping out, I still had
about 1GB RAM free. However, all the running processes (anaconda, etc)
from the installation were 'Sleeping'. I wasn't seeing much disk
activity, or activity to the CD ROM drive.
Well usually the processes that would rather be doing something else are
blocked on IO if they are blocked at all. On top this would show up on
top as a lot on CPU on "system" and no idle CPU. Maybe there is some
problem with the install kernel vs your board? Try
dmesg
and see if there is some spew of something going on, maybe with your
HDD. Also I guess check your
cat /proc/cpuinfo
and also see if anything on
cat /proc/interrupts
is cranking up at a crazy rate. Another trick is to do
ps -Af
and look at the last few processes, usually that list is in order of
spawning, so you can see if a scriptlet is running something that is
making it stick.
-Andy
