Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.5 latest revisions seem really slow

2010-08-13 Thread Mark
SOLVED: On the original topic, the problem seems to have gone away with the latest kernel: marichter 2.6.18-194.11.1.el5 #1 SMP Tue Aug 10 19:05:06 EDT 2010 x86_64 GNU/Linux centos-release-5-5.el5.centos.x86_64 Thanks to all who may be held responsible. :-) Mark ___

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.5 latest revisions seem really slow

2010-08-05 Thread James Pearson
Frank Thommen wrote: > > The problem was reported for > > 00:10.1 Audio device: nVidia Corporation MCP51 High Definition Audio > (rev a2) > > it seems you're lucky having the MCP61 ;-) The MCP61 still uses the snd_hda_intel driver, and the upstream ALSA 'fix' is to blacklist all NVidia chipse

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.5 latest revisions seem really slow

2010-08-05 Thread Frank Thommen
Mark wrote: > On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 7:35 AM, James Pearson > wrote: >> Frank Thommen wrote: Can you post the output of lspci and lsmod ? >>> sorry, forgot to copy-paste these in my original post: >>> >>> [r...@shelley ~]# lspci >>> ... >>> 00:10.1 Audio device: nVidia Corporation MCP51 High

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.5 latest revisions seem really slow

2010-08-05 Thread Frank Thommen
James Pearson wrote: > Frank Thommen wrote: >>> Can you post the output of lspci and lsmod ? >> sorry, forgot to copy-paste these in my original post: >> >> [r...@shelley ~]# lspci >> ... >> 00:10.1 Audio device: nVidia Corporation MCP51 High Definition Audio >> (rev a2) >> >> [r...@shelley ~]# ls

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.5 latest revisions seem really slow

2010-08-05 Thread James Pearson
Mark wrote: > I'm not having sound problems > > 00:05.0 Audio device: nVidia Corporation MCP61 High Definition Audio (rev a2) It might still be worth adding 'enable_msi=0' to the 'options snd-hda-intel' line in /etc/modprobe.conf to see if it makes any difference after a reboot ... James

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.5 latest revisions seem really slow

2010-08-05 Thread Mark
On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 7:35 AM, James Pearson wrote: > Frank Thommen wrote: >>>Can you post the output of lspci and lsmod ? >> >> sorry, forgot to copy-paste these in my original post: >> >> [r...@shelley ~]# lspci >> ... >> 00:10.1 Audio device: nVidia Corporation MCP51 High Definition Audio >> (

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.5 latest revisions seem really slow

2010-08-05 Thread James Pearson
Frank Thommen wrote: >>Can you post the output of lspci and lsmod ? > > sorry, forgot to copy-paste these in my original post: > > [r...@shelley ~]# lspci > ... > 00:10.1 Audio device: nVidia Corporation MCP51 High Definition Audio > (rev a2) > > [r...@shelley ~]# lsmod > ... > snd_hda_intel

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.5 latest revisions seem really slow

2010-08-05 Thread Frank Thommen
James Pearson wrote: > Frank Thommen wrote: > >> I'm experiencing similar problems on a DELL Optiplex 740 with the same >> CPU (AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 5000+ @ 2.60 GHz, 4 GB RAM, 80 >> GB Hitachi Deskstar 7K80 HD). But in my case the slowness is not >> restricted to OO, but the w

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.5 latest revisions seem really slow

2010-08-05 Thread James Pearson
Frank Thommen wrote: > I'm experiencing similar problems on a DELL Optiplex 740 with the same > CPU (AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 5000+ @ 2.60 GHz, 4 GB RAM, 80 > GB Hitachi Deskstar 7K80 HD). But in my case the slowness is not > restricted to OO, but the whole systems is slowed down.

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.5 latest revisions seem really slow

2010-08-05 Thread Frank Thommen
Mark wrote: > I recently updated to OpenOffice 3.2 and I noticed that it, and the > latest Evolution, seem to be incredibly slow for some operations. > > E.g., in OO, about half the time when I'm editing something, it takes > anywhere from 10-30 seconds for OO to respond to a click on one of the >

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.5 latest revisions seem really slow

2010-08-04 Thread Mark
On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 9:30 PM, JohnS wrote: > > You can do: > rpm -q --changelog kernel >> changelog.log   \ > rpm -q --changelog kernel-2.6.18-194.8.1.el5 >> changelog.log > > To view the changelog for patches and BZs Applied to the kernel or any > rpm.  As in load up the newest one and run the

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.5 latest revisions seem really slow

2010-08-03 Thread JohnS
On Tue, 2010-08-03 at 16:01 -0700, Mark wrote: > On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 3:29 PM, Mark wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 7:54 AM, JohnS wrote: > > > >> 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

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.5 latest revisions seem really slow

2010-08-03 Thread Mark
On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 3:29 PM, Mark wrote: > On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 7:54 AM, JohnS wrote: > >> 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 t

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.5 latest revisions seem really slow

2010-08-03 Thread Mark
On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 7:54 AM, JohnS 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 month

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.5 latest revisions seem really slow

2010-08-03 Thread JohnS
On Mon, 2010-08-02 at 16:36 -0700, Mark wrote: > Did most of that (except spamd in Evo) and nothing showed up in top - > the big CPU hog was SeaMonkey at 23% of one core, the others were all > idle or lower use. Almost no swapping: --- Try killing Seamonkey/nspluginwrapper ie, shutdown then try.

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.5 latest revisions seem really slow

2010-08-02 Thread Mark
On Sun, Aug 1, 2010 at 11:46 PM, JohnS wrote: > > Latest version for CentOS 5.5 is > openoffice.org-writer-3.1.1-19.5.el5_5.1 > Where did you obtain 3.2 from?  That may be your slowness as on my 64 > bit workstation I see none at all.  Loads in about 3 secs. > I have been using releases direct fro

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.5 latest revisions seem really slow

2010-08-01 Thread JohnS
On Sun, 2010-08-01 at 20:00 -0700, Mark wrote: > I recently updated to OpenOffice 3.2 and I noticed that it, and the > latest Evolution, seem to be incredibly slow for some operations. Latest version for CentOS 5.5 is openoffice.org-writer-3.1.1-19.5.el5_5.1 Where did you obtain 3.2 from? That m