 | | | RHEL AS 4 U2 Slow | RHEL AS 4 U2 Slow 2006-02-06 - By Brenda Radford
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Rick Stevens wrote:
>On Mon, 2006-01-30 at 18:55 -0500, Brenda Radford wrote:
>
>
>>Rick Stevens wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>>On Mon, 2006-01-30 at 16:16 -0500, Brenda Radford wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>Installed RHEL AS 4 U2 on an 80 GB HD (non-production, educational box).
>>>>When I turn it on, it is slow doing all the things it does when it boots
>>>>up.
>>>>After it is finished, I right-click on Open Terminal, and it takes
>>>>forever for a
>>>>window to pop up. How do I find out why it is so slow?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>You need to look at the output of "ps ax" or "top" and see which process
>>>is sucking up the resources. You then have to sort out why that's
>>>happening.
>>>
>>>If this is the first boot on the machine, the dread "updatedb" process
>>>may be running. It can take a lot of resources. Either wait for it to
>>>finish (it will, eventually) or kill it and let it run when your machine
>>>isn't busy. It is what updates the "slocate" database and typically
>>>runs at 4:00 a.m.--provided you leave the machine on. If you shut the
>>>machine off and 4:00 a.m. rolls by while it's off, the process will
>>>launch shortly after the machine boots so it can "catch up".
>>>
>>>Of course, if you don't need the "slocate" command then disable the
>>>updatedb process completely by editing /etc/updatedb.conf and changing
>>>"DAILY_UPDATE=yes" to "DAILY_UPDATE=no" and killing any currently
>>>running process.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>I have 895 MB memory and a 1995.494 MHz CPU.
>>>>
>>>>The only thing I did manually in the install was to partition the hard
>>>>disk (from df):
>>>>
>>>>Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
>>>>/dev/hda5 1004024 162144 790876 18% /
>>>>/dev/hda1 497829 15985 456142 4% /boot
>>>>none 452880 0 452880 0% /dev/shm
>>>>/dev/hda10 20161172 123016 19014016 1% /home
>>>>/dev/hda3 2016044 35836 1877796 2% /opt
>>>>/dev/hda8 10080488 55408 9513012 1% /tmp
>>>>/dev/hda2 10080520 3546400 6022052 38% /usr
>>>>/dev/hda7 5036284 42924 4737528 1% /usr/local
>>>>/dev/hda9 10080488 147520 9420900 2% /var
>>>>/dev/hdb1 101089 33094 62776 35% /mnt/hdb1
>>>>/dev/hdb2 76051264 24007900 48180136 34% /mnt/hdb2
>>>>/dev/fd0 1424 3 1421 1% /media/floppy
>>>>
>>>>I do have a second hard drive that ran RHEL AS 3, but it isn't mounted in
>>>>/etc/fstab; it was done manually above.
>>>>
>>>>I do have 2 errors in the kernel log, but I don't know what they mean:
>>>>
>>>>shpchp: acpi_shpchprm:\_SB_.PCI0 evaluate _BBN fail=0x5
>>>>shpchp: acpi_shpchprm:get_device PCI ROOT HID fail=0x5
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>I wouldn't worry about those. They're related to the ACPI (Advanced
>>>Configuration and Power Interface) system and aren't critical. You may
>>>wish to turn off ACPI ("chkconfig acpid off;service acpid stop") or
>>>boot with "noacpi".
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>Rick,
>>
>>There were no resource hogs in "ps ax" or "top".
>>
>>It wasn't "updatedb". "DAILY_UPDATE" was no. I have been booting the
>>machine at least once a day
>>since I installed on January 16. BTW, I love "slocate".
>>
>>I turned off acpid first by stopping the service; things improved
>>dramatically and instantly.
>>Then I chkconfig'd it off.
>>
>>
>
>Interesting that acpid hosed the machine that badly. Weird!
>
>
>
>>I want to boot with "noacpi". Where do I put that?
>>
>>
>
>Edit /boot/grub/grub.conf. Find the stanza that reflects your kernel,
>and edit the "kernel=" line. Put " noacpi" at the end. For example,
>on my Fedora Core 4 machine:
>
>title Fedora Core (2.6.14-1.1656_FC4)
> root (hd0,0)
> kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.14-1.1656_FC4 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb
>quiet noacpi <<<<====NOTE!
> initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.14-1.1656_FC4.img
>
>If you just want to try it once, reboot the system. At the grub
>screen scroll to the kernel you want to play with and hit "E".
>Scroll down to the kernel line and hit "E" again. Go to the end of
>the line and add " noacpi" to it (don't forget the leading space and
>do NOT include the quote marks), then hit <ENTER> and press B. The
>system will boot with noacpi THIS TIME ONLY. If you want it to be
>permanent, you have to edit the grub.conf file as I mentioned above.
>
>
>
>
Rick,
The perkiness from dropping acpid only lasted a day. Any other ideas?
Did I partition it to death?
The output from ps ax:
PID TTY STAT TIME COMMAND
1 ? S 0:00 init [5]
2 ? SN 0:00 [ksoftirqd/0]
3 ? S< 0:00 [events/0]
4 ? S< 0:00 [khelper]
5 ? S< 0:00 [kacpid]
23 ? S< 0:00 [kblockd/0]
33 ? S 0:00 [pdflush]
34 ? S 0:00 [pdflush]
36 ? S< 0:00 [aio/0]
24 ? S 0:00 [khubd]
35 ? S 0:00 [kswapd0]
110 ? S 0:00 [kseriod]
199 ? S 0:00 [kjournald]
1042 ? S<s 0:00 udevd
1590 ? S< 0:00 [kauditd]
1623 ? S< 0:00 [kmirrord]
1624 ? S< 0:00 [kmir_mon]
1653 ? S 0:00 [kjournald]
1654 ? S 0:00 [kjournald]
1655 ? S 0:00 [kjournald]
1656 ? S 0:00 [kjournald]
1657 ? S 0:00 [kjournald]
1658 ? S 0:00 [kjournald]
1659 ? S 0:00 [kjournald]
2289 ? Ss 0:00 /sbin/dhclient -1 -q -lf
/var/lib/dhcp/dhclient-eth0.leases -pf /var/run/dhclient-eth0.pid eth0
2343 ? Ss 0:00 syslogd -m 0
2347 ? Ss 0:00 klogd -x
2368 ? Ss 0:00 portmap
2388 ? Ss 0:00 rpc.statd
2416 ? Ss 0:00 rpc.idmapd
2492 ? S 0:00 /usr/sbin/smartd
2502 ? Ss 0:00 /usr/sbin/sshd
2517 ? Ss 0:00 xinetd -stayalive -pidfile /var/run/xinetd.pid
2530 ? SLs 0:00 ntpd -u ntp:ntp -p /var/run/ntpd.pid -g
2551 ? Ss 0:00 sendmail: accepting connections
2559 ? Ss 0:00 sendmail: Queue runner@(protected):00:00 for
/var/spool/clientmqueue
2617 ? Ss 0:00 /usr/sbin/cupsd
2660 ? Ss 0:00 gpm -m /dev/input/mice -t imps2
2670 ? Ss 0:00 crond
2696 ? Ss 0:00 xfs -droppriv -daemon
2706 ? SNs 0:00 anacron -s
2715 ? Ss 0:00 /usr/sbin/atd
2734 ? Ss 0:00 dbus-daemon-1 --system
2745 ? Ss 0:00 rhnsd --interval 240
2755 ? Ss 0:00 cups-config-daemon
2766 ? Ss 0:01 hald
2776 tty1 Ss+ 0:00 /sbin/mingetty tty1
2801 tty2 Ss+ 0:00 /sbin/mingetty tty2
2887 tty3 Ss+ 0:00 /sbin/mingetty tty3
2906 tty4 Ss+ 0:00 /sbin/mingetty tty4
2913 tty5 Ss+ 0:00 /sbin/mingetty tty5
2920 tty6 Ss+ 0:00 /sbin/mingetty tty6
3174 ? Ss 0:00 /usr/bin/gdm-binary -nodaemon
3207 ? S 0:00 /usr/bin/gdm-binary -nodaemon
3213 ? S 0:15 /usr/X11R6/bin/X :0 -audit 0 -auth
/var/gdm/:0.Xauth -nolisten tcp vt7
3521 ? Ss 0:01 /usr/bin/gnome-session
3549 ? Ss 0:00 /usr/bin/ssh-agent -s
3576 ? S 0:00 /usr/bin/dbus-launch --exit-with-session
/etc/X11/xinit/Xclients
3577 ? Ss 0:00 dbus-daemon-1 --fork --print-pid 8
--print-address 6 --session
3581 ? S 0:00 /usr/libexec/gconfd-2 5
3584 ? S 0:00 /usr/bin/gnome-keyring-daemon
3586 ? Ss 0:00 /usr/libexec/bonobo-activation-server
--ac-activate --ior-output-fd=18
3588 ? S 0:00 /usr/libexec/gnome-settings-daemon
--oaf-activate-iid=OAFIID:GNOME_SettingsDaemon --oaf-ior-fd=22
3594 ? S 0:00 /usr/libexec/gam_server
3603 ? S 0:00 xscreensaver -nosplash
3627 ? Ss 0:00 /usr/bin/metacity --sm-client-id=default1
3631 ? Ss 0:00 gnome-panel --sm-client-id default2
3633 ? Ssl 0:00 nautilus --no-default-window --sm-client-id
default3
3635 ? Ss 0:00 gnome-volume-manager --sm-client-id default6
3637 ? S 0:00 /usr/libexec/wnck-applet
--oaf-activate-iid=OAFIID:GNOME_Wncklet_Factory --oaf-ior-fd=26
3639 ? S 0:00 /usr/libexec/mixer_applet2
--oaf-activate-iid=OAFIID:GNOME_MixerApplet_Factory --oaf-ior-fd=28
3641 ? S 0:00 /usr/libexec/clock-applet
--oaf-activate-iid=OAFIID:GNOME_ClockApplet_Factory --oaf-ior-fd=30
3643 ? S 0:00 /usr/libexec/notification-area-applet
--oaf-activate-iid=OAFIID:GNOME_NotificationAreaApplet_Factory
--oaf-ior-fd=32
3647 ? Ss 0:00 eggcups --sm-client-id default5
3653 ? Sl 0:00 /usr/libexec/gnome-vfs-daemon
--oaf-activate-iid=OAFIID:GNOME_VFS_Daemon_Factory --oaf-ior-fd=36
3666 ? S 0:00 /usr/libexec/mapping-daemon
3668 ? Ss 0:00 pam-panel-icon --sm-client-id default0
3672 ? S 0:00 /sbin/pam_timestamp_check -d root
3788 ? Ss 0:00 /usr/bin/esd -terminate -nobeeps -as 2
-spawnfd 28
3790 ? Sl 0:01 /usr/bin/gnome-terminal
3791 ? S 0:00 gnome-pty-helper
3792 pts/1 Ss 0:00 bash
3818 pts/1 R+ 0:00 ps ax
Thanks,
Brenda
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