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style='font-size:10.0pt'><a
href="http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos"
title="http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos"><span lang=ES><span
title="http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos">israel.garcia at cimex.com.cu</span></span></a></span></font><span
lang=ES> wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'>>><i><span style='font-style:italic'> Hi, I've installed CentOS5.2 on an INTEL Core 2 Duo (Intel(R) Core(TM)2<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>>><i><span
style='font-style:italic'> Duo CPU E6550 @ 2.33GHz), 4 GB RAM (MemTotal: 4072176 kB) and</span></i>><i><span
style='font-style:italic'><o:p></o:p></span></i></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>>><i><span
style='font-style:italic'> my system gets sevarel minutes to startup, specially on udev daemon.<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>>><i><span
style='font-style:italic'> Once the system is UP, every command I run gets 100% CPU and every is<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>>><i><span
style='font-style:italic'> very slowly at the point yum -y update never ends. The system installed<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>>><i><span
style='font-style:italic'> by default this kernel 2.6.18-53.el5PAE. I would like to know what's<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>>><i><span
style='font-style:italic'> wrong with my server. Do I have to install another kernel? Can you help<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>>><i><span
style='font-style:italic'> me?<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>>With 4G I'd install the x86_64 version. Not that I think that PAE is the<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>>reason for this slow behaviour (last reporter who had that somewhere on<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>>bugs.centos.org had bad RAM), but ...<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>>Cheers,<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>><o:p> </o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>>Ralph<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Well, I ran memtest86 and I got no errors….I installed this kernel 2.6.18-92.1.10.el5 and everything was very fast BUT, it only recognize 3GB RAM. :-( I installed CentOS5.2 64 x86_64 bits and I got the same slow performance.. On x86_64 I installed the latest kernel and nothing.. </span></font><font
face=Wingdings><span style='font-family:Wingdings'>L</span></font><o:p></o:p></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Regards..Israel<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre>
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