Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.5 latest revisions seem really slow

2010-08-13 Thread Mark
SOLVED: On the original topic, the problem seems to have gone away with the latest kernel: marichter 2.6.18-194.11.1.el5 #1 SMP Tue Aug 10 19:05:06 EDT 2010 x86_64 GNU/Linux centos-release-5-5.el5.centos.x86_64 Thanks to all who may be held responsible. :-) Mark

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.5 latest revisions seem really slow

2010-08-05 Thread Frank Thommen
Mark wrote: I recently updated to OpenOffice 3.2 and I noticed that it, and the latest Evolution, seem to be incredibly slow for some operations. E.g., in OO, about half the time when I'm editing something, it takes anywhere from 10-30 seconds for OO to respond to a click on one of the

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.5 latest revisions seem really slow

2010-08-05 Thread James Pearson
Frank Thommen wrote: I'm experiencing similar problems on a DELL Optiplex 740 with the same CPU (AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 5000+ @ 2.60 GHz, 4 GB RAM, 80 GB Hitachi Deskstar 7K80 HD). But in my case the slowness is not restricted to OO, but the whole systems is slowed down.

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.5 latest revisions seem really slow

2010-08-05 Thread Frank Thommen
James Pearson wrote: Frank Thommen wrote: I'm experiencing similar problems on a DELL Optiplex 740 with the same CPU (AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 5000+ @ 2.60 GHz, 4 GB RAM, 80 GB Hitachi Deskstar 7K80 HD). But in my case the slowness is not restricted to OO, but the whole

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.5 latest revisions seem really slow

2010-08-05 Thread James Pearson
Frank Thommen wrote: Can you post the output of lspci and lsmod ? sorry, forgot to copy-paste these in my original post: [r...@shelley ~]# lspci ... 00:10.1 Audio device: nVidia Corporation MCP51 High Definition Audio (rev a2) [r...@shelley ~]# lsmod ... snd_hda_intel 639265

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.5 latest revisions seem really slow

2010-08-05 Thread Mark
On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 7:35 AM, James Pearson jame...@moving-picture.com wrote: Frank Thommen wrote: Can you post the output of lspci and lsmod ? sorry, forgot to copy-paste these in my original post: [r...@shelley ~]# lspci ... 00:10.1 Audio device: nVidia Corporation MCP51 High Definition

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.5 latest revisions seem really slow

2010-08-05 Thread James Pearson
Mark wrote: I'm not having sound problems 00:05.0 Audio device: nVidia Corporation MCP61 High Definition Audio (rev a2) It might still be worth adding 'enable_msi=0' to the 'options snd-hda-intel' line in /etc/modprobe.conf to see if it makes any difference after a reboot ... James

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.5 latest revisions seem really slow

2010-08-05 Thread Frank Thommen
James Pearson wrote: Frank Thommen wrote: Can you post the output of lspci and lsmod ? sorry, forgot to copy-paste these in my original post: [r...@shelley ~]# lspci ... 00:10.1 Audio device: nVidia Corporation MCP51 High Definition Audio (rev a2) [r...@shelley ~]# lsmod ...

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.5 latest revisions seem really slow

2010-08-05 Thread Frank Thommen
Mark wrote: On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 7:35 AM, James Pearson jame...@moving-picture.com wrote: Frank Thommen wrote: Can you post the output of lspci and lsmod ? sorry, forgot to copy-paste these in my original post: [r...@shelley ~]# lspci ... 00:10.1 Audio device: nVidia Corporation MCP51

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.5 latest revisions seem really slow

2010-08-05 Thread James Pearson
Frank Thommen wrote: The problem was reported for 00:10.1 Audio device: nVidia Corporation MCP51 High Definition Audio (rev a2) it seems you're lucky having the MCP61 ;-) The MCP61 still uses the snd_hda_intel driver, and the upstream ALSA 'fix' is to blacklist all NVidia chipsets wrt

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.5 latest revisions seem really slow

2010-08-04 Thread Mark
On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 9:30 PM, JohnS jse...@gmail.com wrote: You can do: rpm -q --changelog kernel changelog.log   \ rpm -q --changelog kernel-2.6.18-194.8.1.el5 changelog.log To view the changelog for patches and BZs Applied to the kernel or any rpm.  As in load up the newest one and

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.5 latest revisions seem really slow

2010-08-03 Thread JohnS
On Mon, 2010-08-02 at 16:36 -0700, Mark wrote: Did most of that (except spamd in Evo) and nothing showed up in top - the big CPU hog was SeaMonkey at 23% of one core, the others were all idle or lower use. Almost no swapping: --- Try killing Seamonkey/nspluginwrapper ie, shutdown then try.

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.5 latest revisions seem really slow

2010-08-03 Thread Mark
On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 7:54 AM, JohnS jse...@gmail.com wrote: Try killing Seamonkey/nspluginwrapper ie, shutdown then try. No difference. What is your running kernel? Newest.  Asking because it may be that your problem is machine independent as a client of mine on a Compaq had the same

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.5 latest revisions seem really slow

2010-08-03 Thread Mark
On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 3:29 PM, Mark mhullr...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 7:54 AM, JohnS jse...@gmail.com wrote: What is your running kernel? Newest.  Asking because it may be that your problem is machine independent as a client of mine on a Compaq had the same problem 6 months

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.5 latest revisions seem really slow

2010-08-03 Thread JohnS
On Tue, 2010-08-03 at 16:01 -0700, Mark wrote: On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 3:29 PM, Mark mhullr...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 7:54 AM, JohnS jse...@gmail.com wrote: What is your running kernel? Newest. Asking because it may be that your problem is machine independent as a client

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.5 latest revisions seem really slow

2010-08-02 Thread JohnS
On Sun, 2010-08-01 at 20:00 -0700, Mark wrote: I recently updated to OpenOffice 3.2 and I noticed that it, and the latest Evolution, seem to be incredibly slow for some operations. Latest version for CentOS 5.5 is openoffice.org-writer-3.1.1-19.5.el5_5.1 Where did you obtain 3.2 from? That

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.5 latest revisions seem really slow

2010-08-02 Thread Mark
On Sun, Aug 1, 2010 at 11:46 PM, JohnS jse...@gmail.com wrote: Latest version for CentOS 5.5 is openoffice.org-writer-3.1.1-19.5.el5_5.1 Where did you obtain 3.2 from?  That may be your slowness as on my 64 bit workstation I see none at all.  Loads in about 3 secs. I have been using releases

[CentOS] CentOS 5.5 latest revisions seem really slow

2010-08-01 Thread Mark
I recently updated to OpenOffice 3.2 and I noticed that it, and the latest Evolution, seem to be incredibly slow for some operations. E.g., in OO, about half the time when I'm editing something, it takes anywhere from 10-30 seconds for OO to respond to a click on one of the icons or menu items,