Thanks for your replies Bob, Stan and Karl :-) On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 3:20 AM, Stan Hoeppner <s...@hardwarefreak.com> wrote: > > Siju George put forth on 10/19/2010 7:16 AM: > > > Define "recently". >
2-3 days back > > You just installed Squeeze on this system 4 days ago. > no >Four days isn't > sufficient to say a system _was_ running fine and now is slow. Did you > upgrade this box from Lenny to Squeeze 4 days ago? Are you saying it > ran fine before the distribution upgrade but afterward it is slow? > This system has been running on Lenny for over 8 months now. On Sept 16th I upgraded it to Squeeze. And things were fine untill 2-3 days. > If you just performed a dist upgrade 4 days ago, that is _extremely_ > relevant information, and you should have shared that in your original post. > After the upgrade from lenny to squeeze it was working fine for almost a month so i did not consider it relevant :-( > You have made the nubie mistake of offering far too little information > about your system details, and more importantly, the system's history. > Give us all the details, and we might be able to help. At this point in > time, you've provided zero relevant information that would allow us to > help solve your problem. > I will give you the other details that was asked for thanks :-) > If this is a brand new machine/Squeeze install, not an upgrade from > Lenny, there are any number of things that could be causing this > perceived slow write problem. For instance, a bad/flaky TIM junction > between the CPU and heatsink or a defective CPU fan could be causing > thermal throttling. If the proper modules aren't installed, you'll > never see anything in your logs pointing to this as the cause. > ok , thanks for the info :-) > Please post complete dmesg output so we can at least get an idea of the > hardware specifics of this machine and see what the installed kernel > thinks about your hardware. Whatever your problem is it is at a low > level, and systemic as it affects shell applications as well as network > applications. > Now that I know what the relevant information are I will give them to you :-) The dmesg http://pastie.org/1235266 $vmstat 5 output http://pastie.org/1235273 thanks for offering to help :-D --Siju -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/aanlktikd0zxuv+tskvgpx_5hr_6jwd5iyxfwbuqxc...@mail.gmail.com
