Ralph Angenendt wrote: > israel.garcia at 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 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos I don't think PAE would be causing his issue...I have a similar system with 8GB of RAM and I got better performance w/ PAE than I did with x86_64, but YMMV depending on usage of the system... Israel, have you tried running memtest86 just to rule out a memory error? Also, when you installed, did you let the installer check your media?