Nightwriter,
As EC said, you may encounter some problems in [hard|soft]ware. Did
you overclock it? Any parts work incorrectly?
A machine is sn^Hlow when:
1. crappy machine with low end configuration. Your configuration is
not bad, so use 'free' and 'top' to see what's happening in your
system when it is slow.
2. network problem. If you software setup depends on a workable
network, but you haven't, you get in trouble. These includes WEB
server, mail server(they need correct DNS setup), nfs client(it
needs NFS server), dhcpcd(it needs dhcp server in network), NIS
service( it needs a NIS environment) etc.
All these software will hang for 1-5 minutes for timeout if your
network configuration is not correct.
3. gpm, aka generic purpose mouse driver, sometimes hangs there until
you move your mouse. This situation would appear when gpm is
started or stopped.
4. Your ~/.Xauthority or ~/.xauth is not correct. This situation
appears when you change your hostname, while /etc/hosts has no
entry for the new hostname, correct /etc/hosts and remove
~/.Xauthority and ~/.xauth
I suggest you do these:
1. at LILO prompt, use TAB to see the bootable list
2. append "single" or "1" to the bootable entry you use, such as
LILO: linux 1
3. Now you boot your linux into runlevel 1. I think it is fast.
4. at # prompt, type "init 3"
5. look at output message, write down every hang you meet(as it
hangs, you have enough time to write it down)
6. Now you are in runlevel 3.
7. use "top" and "free" and write down strange things you see
7. "startx" into X, see how it is slow and write down a description
If you see anything in step 1-7 and you can resolve some, ask about
the unresolved here :-)
BTW: I think you enable too many services. Use "ntsysv" to disable
some services, such as "httpd" "routed" "rstatd" "ruserd" "ypbind"
Monday, August 07, 2000, 2:54:31 AM, you wrote:
EC> On Sat, 5 Aug 2000, Nightwriter wrote:
>> Subject: [expert] The worlds SLOWEST linux boxen
>>
>> All,
>> I'm wrestling here with a linux for windows install of 7.1 on a Celeron
>> 400mhz cpu with 32 megs ram 65 megs swap i810 video card. currently it
>> takes 23 minutes 26 seconds from power on till kde is ready to
>> go. Netscape.... start it today and it'll be ready tomorrow. Windows
>> however snaps on the same box. (only 50megs swap) Any ideas?
>>
>> Nightwriter
>>
EC> Can you send us the output of your dmesg, run "dmesg > dmesg.log" as root,
EC> then post it on the list, plus show us the output of the
EC> "top" command. This should help determine whether it is a hardware cause
EC> or software. Also send the output of "ps ax" to let us know any daemons
EC> running.
--
lark
