[wplug] Performance Anxiety

[Vanco, Donald]

What's the output of "chkconfig --list | grep 3:on"?  You likely have some
service that can be taken down.  If you're runnign a DHCP server, web
server, DNS server, Mail server, SNMP server, etc ,etc... well, it should be
obvious what your issue is....
Are you using the GUI exclusivley?  It's something of a hog.
You can try one of the kernels here:
ftp://ftp.mat.univie.ac.at/pub/rpm/ <ftp://ftp.mat.univie.ac.at/pub/rpm/> 
..among other things, it's stripped of the NPTL stuff that has seen some
systems running a bit slow.
Do you have APM running?  Is there a possibility it thinks you're on
battery? (service apmd stop will kill it until the next reboot).  It's
doubtful that ACPI is doing anything given the age of the laptop.
 
Not to crack wise, but if my PIII-500 were acting slow, I'd investigate one
of the P4 systems Dell is selling for $499.00..... that being said, RH9
should at least run as fast as Win2k, so something's decidedly "busy"....
 
FWIW - when a RH system is first booted there's a couple of very intensive
jobs that run from cron (updatedb and an rpm database discovery) - so it may
be that it gets speedier after a time.
 
Don
 

-----Original Message----- 
From: Pete Butler [mailto:pmbutler at comcast.net] 
Sent: Sun 7/13/2003 2:02 PM 
To: wplug at wplug.org 
Cc: 
Subject: [wplug] Performance Anxiety



Hello. 

I attended the InstallFest yesterday (thanks to everyone who helped my wife 
and I!) and got Red Hat 9 installed on my laptop (an IBM Thinkpad 
390X).  I've been playing around with it a bit today, and I've discovered 
that it's dirt slow. 

The machine uses a 500 MHz Pentium III with 256 Megs RAM, and it runs Win2K 
just fine (dual boot).  But under Linux, it chugs mightily, and all but the 
simplest applications are crash-prone. 

This makes me suspect something is misconfigured.  But before I start 
blundering blindly though config files, I figured I'd post the question
here: 

If your machine were exhibiting this kind of behavior, where would you 
start investigating? 

Thanks in advance, 
-- Pete Butler 

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