On Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 03:53:32PM -0500, Trevor Antczak wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have just installed Seawolf on a VERY powerful Intel Xeon based
> machine, and I am having a couple of problems. I've searched the
> archives, and while I can find a few similar issues, nothing quite
> fits. First, the machine:
>
> SuperMicro S2QR6 Motherboard
> 4 Pentium III Xeon 700 Mhz CPUs
> 8 GB of RAM (16 512 MB registered ECC PC 100 DIMMs by Viking)
[snip]
> 2) Everything is very slow. The thing takes between 3 and five second
> to start each service on boot. The kernel startup goes quite quickly,
> but services are deadly slow. My Pentium 133 with 32 megs of RAM boots
> quicker. Commands take several seconds to execute. I was going to
> compile a new kernel for it to see if I could improve performance (and
> maybe fix X), but it has been working for most of an hour on the
> compile, my PII 400 is faster on a kernel compile. I suspect the new
> kernel (or at least recompiled kernel) is the only way to fix this
> problem, but if anyone can offer a suggestion to speed it up BEFORE I
> compile, I'd appreciate it (because looking back, I think I messed up
> the SCSI config on this one, so I shall have to do it again). I am
> attaching the results of a dmesg command as "bootlog".
A possible workaround for the speed issue would be to try booting with
lilo arg "mem=128M" and see if having less memory helps.
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