Hello Rhys and Larry, at all,
I am writing just to thank for the help. After a dark period I could
install the hugemem and the problem disappeared. The wa indices in top
fell to acceptable levels and the machine is having a better performance
but still well lower running the gentoo livecd. As the problem was
solved, I had to recover all the work that was delayed, and I have not
had time to investigate the .config of the two kernels, but I will do
it. As soon as I finish this, I will inform you of my conclusions.
Thanks again.
Eduardo Bach
P. Larry Nelson escreveu:
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: Access disc too slow
Date: Thu, 29 May 2008 22:05:11 +0100 (BST)
From: Rhys Morris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Eduardo Bach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED], Marco André Ferreira Dias
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Hi Eduardo,
Try running kernel-hugemem instead of the normal kernel, I recently
had similar problems to you which were fixed by running
kernel-hugemem.
I upgraded the RAM in a machine from 2gb to 4gb and it ran really
slowly with the normal kernel, but fine with kernel-hugemem
yum install kernel-hugemem
rebboot and pick kernel-hugmem on boot.
Good luck,
Rhys
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Starting a new thread here...
Speaking of kernel-hugemem, I'm now curious - I've seen the term
before but never gave it much thought, thinking it must be for
those huge servers with 16 Gbytes or more of ram.
Rhys comment about using kernel-hugemem on a 4GB system has now
prompted me to ask at what point does one go or should go (or
need to go) to the hugemem kernel? We have a couple of systems
at 4GB and will probably get more systems with even more memory.
And what were your metrics for slow running vs. fine running?
Thanks!
- Larry
