Super-slow response, not quite dead

[Stephen Durham]

My Opteron 244 ran insanely slow with some installs, just some not all.
Very similar to what you are talking about. I am not sure if this will
help but when I ran the smp kernel on those installs it worked fine,
even though I only have one cpu (not enough money for the 2nd). It was
very random and I have no clue as to why it occurred.
Thanks,
Stephen

 On Thu, 2004-09-30 at 23:24 -0400, Tim Rutherford wrote:
> On Wed, 29 Sep 2004 21:45:34 -0700, Matt Zimmerman <mdz at canonical.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, Sep 29, 2004 at 11:37:44PM -0400, Tim Rutherford wrote:
> > 
> > > Tried a reboot, to see if this was a problem on first start only.
> > > Checked timing as follows (I need to get a life!)
> > > 22 minutes with just the tan-Human ubuntu splash-mat showing and then
> > > very suddenly it moved through the various icons across the bottom to
> > > the gray screen w/ ubuntu
> > > +2 minutes and the "show desktop" icon in lower-left pops in; within
> > > seconds upper-left and lower-right icons are also on the
> > > menubar/taskbar
> > > +1 minute and the clock shows up
> > >
> > > 25 minutes after boot and I still have a long wait to get action from
> > > the menu selection.
> > 
> > Very strange.  Is there any hard disk activity while it is in this state?
> > Is it slow during the entire boot process, when the login screen comes up,
> > or only after you login?
> > 
> > --
> >  - mdz
> > 
> 
> No significant amount of HD activity, mostly the disk light is dark.
> It seems normal speed during the two logon screens (name, password)
> and then very slow after that. I've had it running for about 30 min.
> now and it seems to have 'improved' to about half normal speed.
> 
> In that Other OS I would run Task Manager to see what's eating CPU
> cycles. Is there anything similar in a Real OS like ubuntu? <g>
> 
> I did try Oliver's suggestion of cat /proc/cpuinfo. It shows 2.6GHz,
> my real clock speed.
> 
> I've searched Synaptic for linux-686-smp but that entry's not in the
> list. I believe that will enable my full 1GB of RAM also. Looking at
> the menu in Synaptic I came across Repositories, but of course ... I'm
> still not able to see the net.
> 
> Let's see, can't see my Windows drives on the same spindle, can't save
> to floppy or to my USB drive, can't see the net. Why do I still think
> ubuntu is going to be the One? I do have hopes.
> 
> Cheers,
> T
>