I'd suggest you install and run "dstat" and look for whether the CPU
is in wait a lot - this would indicate some sort of I'O related issue.

On 6/23/06, Erik de Castro Lopo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:

> Problem disappears with 2.6.15-23-686. Looks like 2.6.15-25-686
> is borked.

Ooops, I spoke too soon. First run on my test suite after booting
to 2.6.15-23-686 ran fine. Second run was slow again.

I do notice that when things are running slow, top shows these two
processes at the top:

    PID USER  PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
      9 root  10  -5     0    0    0 S  2.7  0.0   0:07.39 kblockd/0
   8227 root  26  10  1788  732  504 R  2.3  0.1   0:06.15 updatedb

I don't think I should be seeing those at the top.

More investigation needed.

Erik
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