Redhat linux 5.9 very slow right after installtion on HP DL380 G4
Hi,
I've just installed Redhat Linux 5.9 on an HP ProLiant DL380 G4 server.The server has 4x15k 72GB disks configured as RAID 1+0, 2 CPUs and 6GB RAM. The installation went fine but just after it's fist start the server seems to be very slow. Everything is slow, for example opening a new terminal takes several minutes. I've tried to reboot with no luck. Don't know what could be wrong??!! Best Regards, Mohammad Alomari |
Something is wrong in the configuration. A couple of things to look for are DNS timing out, and stuff using IPv6 and then falling back to IPv4.
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RHEL without a support contract, is pointless. You WILL NOT get bugfixes, patches, updates, or security fixes...your server will be insecure and unstable from day one. And, if you're self-supporting your server, CentOS is 99.x% IDENTICAL to RHEL, but free. Load the latest versions of things, since patches/updates may have fixed whatever problems you're having already. At the very least, it will make things MUCH easier to fix. If you ARE paying RHEL for support, then you need to call them. |
Hardware raid or software raid on top of a hardware raid?
Enough ram? Enough swap? Can even create swap raid. Some of those scsi drives don't like a cache settings as I recall. They have an internal cache and don't like any other caching. I too agree that you should consider up to date server choice such as Centos, Scientific or OpenSuse/Suse. Debian or a BSD may prove useful too. Some folks like Ubuntu LTS. |
Thanks all for you replies but,
1- It's not related to network because the slowness is there regardless connected locally or remotely to the server. anyway, IPV6 is disabled. 2- My server is old G4. That's why i can't use a higher version. In the future the server and the redhat release will be upgraded. 3- The RAID i'm using is hardware only; no software RAID configured. the server has 6GB RAM and 6GB Swap available. Thanks, Best Regards, Mohammad Alomari |
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Reduce the size of your swap partition...since this is obviously a new installation (I don't think you've lived with it being slow for years now, have you???), either pay for the latest version of RHEL, or load the new version of CentOS, and adjust things accordingly. |
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