----- Original Message ----- From: alan <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thursday, April 19, 2007 12:04 pm Subject: Re: Really, REALLY slow computer To: For users of Fedora <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> > On Thu, 19 Apr 2007, zephod@xxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > > So, > > new job and a shiny new HP Duo Core computer with 2G RAM and twin > 250G> ATA drives, loaded with Windows XP of course. The 1st thing I > do is to > > load FC6 on the 2nd of the disks. After 2 days (!) I have everything > > loaded and updated but the system is running really, and I mean > REALLY> slow. It takes about 15 mins to boot up and 5 to log in. > Both processors > > are heavily loaded but yet top shows nothing out of the ordinary, > memory> usage is abot 15%. > > My daughter's machine (which it about 100 mile away, unfortunatly) > is > having the same problem. It is a 32-bit AMD system. I will try > and get > logs dumped from her machine this weekend. > > Are you using the latest kernel? (I am not certai what the version > number > is on the latest FC6 kernel is.) Yes, I've got the latest kernel, at least as of this morning: $ uname -r 2.6.20-1.2944.fc6 Steve.
