[CentOS] CentOS 5.5 latest revisions seem really slow

Tue Aug 3 22:29:18 UTC 2010
Mark <mhullrich at gmail.com>

On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 7:54 AM, JohnS <jses27 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Try killing Seamonkey/nspluginwrapper ie, shutdown then try.
>
No difference.

> What is your running kernel? Newest.  Asking because it may be that your
> problem is machine independent as a client of mine on a Compaq had the
> same problem 6 months ago.  Fix it I just removed the new kernel so it
> use the prior one.  One kernel showed the problem and one did not.
>
$ uname -a
Linux marichter 2.6.18-194.8.1.el5 #1 SMP Thu Jul 1 19:04:48 EDT 2010
x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

I may go back one to see if that makes a difference....

# cat /etc/grub.conf
# grub.conf generated by anaconda
#
# Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file
# NOTICE:  You have a /boot partition.  This means that
#          all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg.
#          root (hd0,0)
#          kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/sda2
#          initrd /initrd-version.img
boot=/dev/sda
default=0
timeout=5
splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
hiddenmenu
title CentOS (2.6.18-194.8.1.el5)
        root (hd0,0)
        kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-194.8.1.el5 ro root=LABEL=/wroot noapic rhgb
        initrd /initrd-2.6.18-194.8.1.el5.img
title CentOS (2.6.18-194.3.1.el5)
        root (hd0,0)
        kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-194.3.1.el5 ro root=LABEL=/wroot noapic rhgb
        initrd /initrd-2.6.18-194.3.1.el5.img
title CentOS (2.6.18-164.15.1.el5)
        root (hd0,0)
        kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-164.15.1.el5 ro root=LABEL=/wroot noapic rhgb
        initrd /initrd-2.6.18-164.15.1.el5.img

I didn't see this problem at all on 2.6.18-194.3.1

Thanks.

Mark