Mark Haney wrote:
Andy Green wrote:
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
Well I"m not seeing anything really out of the ordinary. In dmesg,
I'm seeing some SELinux 'denied' messages, but not a lot of them. The
CPUinfo looks correct. I'm seeing a lot of interrupts in IO-APIC
timer, and ps -Af doesn't show anything hanging that I can see.
Just thought I"d update everyone on my travails with the FC4 to FC5
upgrade. Because the upgrade itself just would not complete the first
disc, I blew away the original install and decided to try to install FC5
fresh. FC5 installed just beautifully, it was blazingly fast and I
didn't encounter any problems at all. (WEll, other than my 3TB LVM
volume not being able to set a mount point from the install)
Turns out, my predecessor, in his infinite wisdom, liked to install
every single package from in Fedora on every server he used here. It
didn't occur to me until earlier today that it's possible that yum was
choking on the sheer amount of packages (and most likely packages that
were moved from the FC4 base to Extras in FC5. If I had cleaned out all
the packages I didn't need on that server, it's likely the upgrade would
have been just fine.
Thanks again for all the help on this.
--
Ceterum censeo, Carthago delenda est.
Mark Haney
Sr. Systems Administrator
ERC Broadband
(828) 350-2415
