Re: [CentOS] bizarre system slowness

2011-04-14 Thread Michael Simpson
On 13 April 2011 21:06, Florin Andrei flo...@andrei.myip.org wrote: Running v5 64bit on a Dell 1950. /var/log/messages was full of ntpd[7313]: frequency error -1707 PPM exceeds tolerance 500 PPM messages. There was a lot of messages about the system limit for the maximum number of semaphore

Re: [CentOS] bizarre system slowness

2011-04-14 Thread Ljubomir Ljubojevic
I was wondering if you have normal internet access on that machine. I found out that somehow systems I set up just freeze and are horribly slow when there is no internet access. Terminnal would take few minutes to open, and if I try several terminals all would open at once once system is

[CentOS] bizarre system slowness

2011-04-13 Thread Florin Andrei
Running v5 64bit on a Dell 1950. A cluster of 3 DB machines, identical hardware. One of them suddenly became slower 2 weeks ago. tar -zxf with a large file on this machine takes 1.5 minutes, but takes only 10 seconds on any of its siblings. CPU usage seems high while untarring, with lots of

Re: [CentOS] bizarre system slowness

2011-04-13 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
centos-boun...@centos.org wrote: Running v5 64bit on a Dell 1950. A cluster of 3 DB machines, identical hardware. One of them suddenly became slower 2 weeks ago. snip proof the overall system is slow snip proof that the CPU is not the problem /var/log/messages was full of ntpd[7313]:

Re: [CentOS] bizarre system slowness

2011-04-13 Thread Cal Webster
On Wed, 2011-04-13 at 13:06 -0700, Florin Andrei wrote: Running v5 64bit on a Dell 1950. A cluster of 3 DB machines, identical hardware. One of them suddenly became slower 2 weeks ago. tar -zxf with a large file on this machine takes 1.5 minutes, but takes only 10 seconds on any of its

Re: [CentOS] bizarre system slowness

2011-04-13 Thread Benjamin Franz
On 04/13/2011 01:34 PM, Cal Webster wrote: tar -zxf with a large file on this machine takes 1.5 minutes, but takes only 10 seconds on any of its siblings. CPU usage seems high while untarring, with lots of user and sys cycles being used, but almost no wait cycles. It doesn't matter whether I

Re: [CentOS] bizarre system slowness

2011-04-13 Thread Florin Andrei
On 04/13/2011 01:55 PM, Benjamin Franz wrote: 1) Are you untarring from *and* to the SAN volume or is the source on the local volume? Source on SAN, destination on SAN. Still slow. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ ___ CentOS mailing list

Re: [CentOS] bizarre system slowness

2011-04-13 Thread Florin Andrei
On 04/13/2011 01:16 PM, Brunner, Brian T. wrote: Any RAID setups go into self-repair mode? No RAID here, just LVM - not too different from the default redhat-style setup of the system drives (except the additional SAN stuff and DB). Anyway, if the drives are the cause, then riddle me this:

Re: [CentOS] bizarre system slowness

2011-04-13 Thread Devin Reade
Maybe check /proc/interrupts ? ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos