We had this same problem 18 months ago with RHEL 3. Turns out it was a
memory problem. As long as we ran with 512MB, everything ran fast and
fine. But, when we increased the memory to 1GB and higher, something
happened to slow the system to aan unbelievable crawl. Seems like there
was a bios upgrade from Intel that fixed the problem.
Bdavis
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%.
During boot I get these two error messages:
...
Starting udev: Wait timeout. Will continue in the background. [FAILED]
...
and
...
Warning: Error inserting freq_table
(/lib/modules/2.6.20-1.2944.fc6/kernel/drivers/cpufreq/freq_table.ko):
Required key not available.
...
The CPU frequency monitor applet show CPU0 to be running between 1.60
and 2.13GHz.
I checked through messages and these couple of things look suspicious:
ACPI: exception (acpi_processor-0677): AE_NOT_FOUND, Processor Device is
not present [10060707]
This message was repeated for the 2nd processor.
speedstep-centrino with X86_SPEEDSTEP_CENTRINO_ACPI config is depreciated.
Use X86_ACPI_CPUFREQ (acpi-cpufreq) instead
ata: 0x01F0 IDE port busy
ata: conflict with IDE 0.
ata: 0x0170 IDE port busy
ata: conflict with ide1
ata_piix: probe of 000:00:1f.2 failed with error -16
Does anyone have any insight of these messages or whwre to start looking
to fix this.
Thanks,
Steve
