I'm running Redhat 8.0 on AMD Athalon 1800 with 256MB of DDRAM, running to the internet through a Netgear router and a DSL modem. I run no outside services - this is purely a desktop system. However, as I intend to play with it (when I get time), I chose the INSTALL ALL option.
Following an uneventful install, I used the Redhat Up2date manager to update all versions and patches. Twice I had my ISP network fail during this process, nevertheless I did manage to finally get all the packages pulled down and installed. However, since that time I have noticed network transactions, particularly web page loading to be very sluggish. On a hunch I checked and found that when pulling down web pages my CPU rate hits 100% and in some cases stays at that level for the 10-15 seconds it takes to load the page. This is unusual, as I am on 3.0Mbs broadband DSL, with about 2.0 - 2.5 actual. Memory usage is high, but not into swap. I checked background process in all runlevels and found nothing unusual, except that for some reason sendmail was active in runlevels 3, 4 and 5. I have disabled that. I also disabled the firewall, but the difference was minimal. The router shows no unusual volume or activity. And I can see no obvious unusual entries in my boot or system logs. Any suggestions, folks? -- burns _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
