System Drag

[myles-green@shaw.ca]

----- Original Message -----
From: burns <linux at burnsmacdonald.com>
Date: Sunday, August 10, 2003 9:31 am
Subject: System Drag

> I'm running Redhat 8.0 on AMD Athalon 1800 with 256MB of DDRAM, 
> runningto the internet through a Netgear router and a DSL modem. I 
> run no
> outside services - this is purely a desktop system. However, as I 
> intendto play with it (when I get time), I chose the INSTALL ALL 
> option.
> Following an uneventful install, I used the Redhat Up2date manager to
> update all versions and patches. Twice I had my ISP network fail 
> duringthis process, nevertheless I did manage to finally get all 
> the packages
> pulled down and installed. However, since that time I have noticed
> network transactions, particularly web page loading to be very 
> sluggish.On a hunch I checked and found that when pulling down web 
> pages my CPU
> rate hits 100% and in some cases stays at that level for the 10-15
> seconds it takes to load the page. This is unusual, as I am on 3.0Mbs
> broadband DSL, with about 2.0 - 2.5 actual. Memory usage is high, but
> not into swap.
> 
> I checked background process in all runlevels and found nothing 
> unusual,except that for some reason sendmail was active in 
> runlevels 3, 4 and 5.
> I have disabled that.  I also disabled the firewall, but the 
> differencewas minimal. The router shows no unusual volume or 
> activity. And I can
> see no obvious unusual entries in my boot or system logs.
> 
> Any suggestions, folks?
> -- 
> burns

Hi Burns,

I found that installing RH9 cured the problems I experienced with RH8, which were very similar to what you describe. IMHO, RH8 was like the typical RH x.0 release  and RH9 behaves more like a RHx.1 or x.2 release. IOW, RH9~=RH8.2.

I know that's probably not the answer you were looking for but it 'worked for me' ;o)

Myles

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Myles Green <myles-green at shaw.ca>