very slow system performance
 

Hi,

Linux system performance is been degraded and so it takes way long to execute simple commands like ls and df etc.

I tried to look at /var/log/messages file but it is empty.
I tried reboot and no luck. I noticed that there 1025 files with name btmp.X.gz (permissions on file are -rw-rw-r-- 1 root utmp) where X=1 to 1024. Not sure what these files are and if they are anything to do with issue.

Any insight into troubleshooting this issue will be greatly appreciated!!!

Thanks!

One more thing, i noticed many errors in ifconfig output for eth1


see below for complete output (I removed IP address etc from output)

Perhaps the logs are not going to messages.

Post the output of

Hi Andrewthomas,

Please find attached file for the output. I could not post it here as it was too long to post.

Thanks!

So you are running Fedora? What version? Your Rsyslog config may be a bit off.

No. It is RHEL 5.3. It used to work just fine earlier though, in terms of performance and logging events in /var/log/messages.

I'm not sure if it would be helpful or perhaps temporally to run a programs like BleachBit(carefully) or to clean the system; you looked into the systems monitor or top for out of control pids?

you are aware that the current OLDER rhel5 is RHEL 5.10
and you are 7 minor upgrades behind

and that the current version is RHEL 6.5

well ALL of those backup archives can be deleted
it looks like you never configured "logrotate"
http://linuxcommand.org/man_pages/logrotate8.html


also the old backup bootlogs
boot.log.1 through boot.log.4

the bad login
btmp.1.gz through btmp.1024.gz

and with this rhel5 install missing the last 7 operating system upgrades
and there for WIDE OPEN to the last 4 years ( since 2009) to ALL of the NOW FIXED security holes


if a system that is missing 4 years of updates ,is misbehaving, my FIRST guess will be that you have been comprised .

that and that the log folder is eating ALL of the drive space with old back-ups

Well said John. :-)