Re: System slow down

2003-03-10 Thread Michael Schwendt
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 10 Mar 2003 15:20:24 +0100, Fulajtár Pál wrote: > >On Red Hat Linux 8.0, try again with > > > > export LC_ALL=C > > time zgrep pattern1 any.txt | grep pattern2 > > > >Just curious... > > > > > real0m9.112s (instead of minutes) > us

Re: System slow down

2003-03-10 Thread Fulajtár Pál
On Red Hat Linux 8.0, try again with export LC_ALL=C time zgrep pattern1 any.txt | grep pattern2 Just curious... real0m9.112s (instead of minutes) user0m7.486s sys 0m1.209s Significant increase! I would never find out this language setting without you! Thank you! Pal

Re: System slow down

2003-03-10 Thread Michael Schwendt
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 10 Mar 2003 14:44:02 +0100, Fulajtár Pál wrote: > I've tried to search in a big gzipped (24MB, extracted size is 277MB) > text file. > The command was: zgrep pattern1 any.txt | grep pattern2 > > Results: > 1: 14 sec > 2: 2min 15 sec > 3: 53

System slow down

2003-03-10 Thread Fulajtár Pál
Hi All I ran a lot of tests because I have a similar problem. I have 3 configurations: 1. PII Celeron 500MHz, 256MB RAM, 512 MB SWAP 36 GB IDE HDD, ext2, RedHat 6.1 2. PIII 500 MHz, 1GB RAM, 1 GB and 2x1GB SWAP (because of testing situations), 18 GB SCSI HDD (Initio A100U2W, ATLAS10K3_18_WLS

Re: System slow down

2003-03-04 Thread Gordon Messmer
On Friday, February 28, 2003, at 03:56 PM, Margaret_Doll wrote: > I have a Dell station, 665 MHz, 256Kb Cache, 256 Kb ram, that is unuseable because it > is too slow. The system used to be fairly quick; we had been using it as a web server. > Now there is a delay in any graphics display, "

Re: System slow down

2003-03-04 Thread Renato Salles
My first bet is RAM card. Can you open the CPU and just unplug one at time (how many?) the ram cards until you get off the delay? Even with 32MB of RAM you can just boot the system at runlevel 3. I had sometimes this situation also, maybe a card not properly pluged, or a oxydated one. In this case

Re: System slow down

2003-03-03 Thread Aaron Konstam
On Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 11:06:50AM -0500, Margaret_Doll wrote: > Aaron, > > I would like to try converting the partitions to ext2 to see if the > formatting > is the problem on the system. I see in the instructions in the RedHat > Customization > Guide the instructions, but they won't wor

Re: System slow down

2003-03-03 Thread Margaret_Doll
I have done a top. Nothing is running. I used the memtester from http://www.qcc.ca/~charlesc/software/memtester/ to test the memory to see if the memory was failing or a card was improperly installed. The initial login screen takes five minutes or more to appear. On Friday, February 28, 2003,

Re: System slow down

2003-02-28 Thread 2ib
256Kb RAM?! Huh! Sounds like XT with 4,77MHz 8086 CPU - Original Message - From: "Margaret_Doll" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "psyche" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, February 28, 2003 9:56 PM Subject: System slow down > I have a Dell station, 665 MHz,

System slow down

2003-02-28 Thread Margaret_Doll
I have a Dell station, 665 MHz, 256Kb Cache, 256 Kb ram, that is unuseable because it is too slow. The system used to be fairly quick; we had been using it as a web server. Now there is a delay in any graphics display, "ps", "vi", "man", and "rpm" process. I would appreciate any suggestio