Re: Debugging severe performance problems

2005-12-27 Thread Kjetil Kjernsmo
On Tuesday 27 December 2005 11:53, Gonzalo HIGUERA DÍAZ wrote: > Given the three scenarios you give, specially the first and maybe > also the third, disk access is a likely candidate. Check with hdparm > whether the HDD-chipset is using the best transfer mode available > (some DMA mode, given the h

Re: Debugging severe performance problems

2005-12-27 Thread Gonzalo HIGUERA DÍAZ
2005-12-27 11:39 +0100, Kjetil Kjernsmo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi all! > > One of my systems has a really severe performance problem. > > [...] > > It is my father's system, so I'm not bothered with it too often, but the > performance is insanely bad. When it does updatedb, the system pretty > much

Debugging severe performance problems

2005-12-27 Thread Kjetil Kjernsmo
Hi all! One of my systems has a really severe performance problem. It has an AMD Athlon XP 1700+ CPU. It has 768 MB RAM, and only very rarely swaps anything. It has a 3Dfx Voodoo Banshee (rev 03) PCI card with 16 MB on-card RAM. The performance problems has been there since the summer. For som