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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
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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'>More details:<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'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Dmesg output:<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'>[root@netreporter-test ~]# dmesg |more<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span lang=ES style='font-size:10.0pt'>Linux version 2.6.18-92.1.10.el5PAE (mockbuild@builder16.centos.org) (gcc version 4.1.2 20071124 (Red Hat 4.1.2-42)) #1 SMP Tu<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>e Aug 5 08:14:05 EDT 2008<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>BIOS-provided physical RAM map:<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
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lang=ES>BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable)<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span lang=ES style='font-size:10.0pt'> BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span lang=ES style='font-size:10.0pt'> BIOS-e820: 00000000000e0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span lang=ES style='font-size:10.0pt'> BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 00000000ce1ad000 (usable)<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span lang=ES style='font-size:10.0pt'> BIOS-e820: 00000000ce1ad000 - 00000000ce20d000 (ACPI NVS)<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span lang=ES style='font-size:10.0pt'> BIOS-e820: 00000000ce20d000 - 00000000cf289000 (usable)<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span lang=ES style='font-size:10.0pt'> BIOS-e820: 00000000cf289000 - 00000000cf28b000 (reserved)<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span lang=ES style='font-size:10.0pt'> BIOS-e820: 00000000cf28b000 - 00000000cf38b000 (usable)<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span lang=ES style='font-size:10.0pt'> BIOS-e820: 00000000cf38b000 - 00000000cf3e5000 (ACPI NVS)<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span lang=ES style='font-size:10.0pt'> BIOS-e820: 00000000cf3e5000 - 00000000cf3ea000 (usable)<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span lang=ES style='font-size:10.0pt'> BIOS-e820: 00000000cf3ea000 - 00000000cf3f3000 (ACPI data)<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span lang=ES style='font-size:10.0pt'> BIOS-e820: 00000000cf3f3000 - 00000000cf3f4000 (usable)<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span lang=ES style='font-size:10.0pt'> </span>BIOS-e820: 00000000cf3f4000 - 00000000cf3ff000 (ACPI data)<o:p></o:p></font></pre><pre><font
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lang=ES>BIOS-e820: 00000000cf3ff000 - 00000000cf400000 (usable)<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span lang=ES style='font-size:10.0pt'> BIOS-e820: 00000000cf400000 - 00000000d0000000 (reserved)<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span lang=ES style='font-size:10.0pt'> BIOS-e820: 00000000f0000000 - 00000000f8000000 (reserved)<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span lang=ES style='font-size:10.0pt'> BIOS-e820: 00000000fff00000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span lang=ES style='font-size:10.0pt'> BIOS-e820: 0000000100000000 - 000000012c000000 (usable)<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>3904MB HIGHMEM available.<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>896MB LOWMEM available.<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>found SMP MP-table at 000fe200<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Memory for crash kernel (0x0 to 0x0) notwithin permissible range<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>disabling kdump<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>NX (Execute Disable) protection: active<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>On node 0 totalpages: 1228800<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'> DMA zone: 4096 pages, LIFO batch:0<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'> Normal zone: 225280 pages, LIFO batch:31<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'> HighMem zone: 999424 pages, LIFO batch:31<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>DMI 2.4 present.<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre>
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