Re: [CentOS] CentOS5 running very slowly on a core 2 duo with 4 GB RAM

israel.garcia@cimex.com.cu wrote:

Hi, I've installed CentOS5.2 on an INTEL Core 2 Duo (Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E6550 @ 2.33GHz), 4 GB RAM (MemTotal: 4072176 kB) and my system gets sevarel minutes to startup, specially on udev daemon. Once the system is UP, every command I run gets 100% CPU and every is very slowly at the point yum -y update never ends. The system installed by default this kernel 2.6.18-53.el5PAE. I would like to know what's wrong with my server. Do I have to install another kernel? Can you help me?

With 4G I'd install the x86_64 version. Not that I think that PAE is the reason for this slow behaviour (last reporter who had that somewhere on bugs.centos.org had bad RAM), but ...

Cheers,

Ralph