System Drag

[Jerry McBride]

Burns,

Running top gives no clues? Then I suspect a driver issue. If you built a 
modular kernel, start turning off services and unloading their associated 
modules. When/if the system begins to run like you expect, it's a sure shot 
you found the issue. Steps taken after that are pretty simple, recompile and 
test for performance.

If you have one of those monolithic kernels, it's time to break it down into 
modules.

I had similar experiences and eventually whittled it down to USB drivers. The 
only thing I could do to fix it was by jumping to the next rev kernel.

Hmmm... it's totally amazing how these kernels are evolving too.

Cheers, Jerry.


On Sunday 10 August 2003 05:15 pm, burns wrote:
> On Sun, 2003-08-10 at 11:52, myles-green at shaw.ca wrote:
> > 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)
>
> That may be the final outcome, but I'd rather try to 'fix' my way out of
> the issue first.
>
> PS: Hi Myles :)

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