Fedora Server 25 running VERY sluggishly

Apolymoxic · 07-02-2017, 07:33 PM

I have an older Dell server (PE2900), running F25 server. This machine has more than enough RAM (about 48GB), and should be able to handle fedora. It ran Windows 2008 R2 without any issue.

I installed Fedora to get more acquainted with it and to start using more linux based environments on the server side of things. Because I am not THE expert on all things linux, I installed Gnome. But this seems to not help things at all because its running EXTREMELY slugglishly. Typing messages, or just the simple command of "term" takes a while... Moving from one screen to the next with the mouse lags.

I am not sure what to do. This is a fresh install. The only thing that I have installed is Chrome...

Anyone have any ideas on how to fix this? If it's gnome, how do I uninstall it? I installed like this:

Code:

su -c 'dnf group install workstation-product-environment'
su -c 'systemctl set-default graphical.target' 
su -c 'systemctl enable gdm.service'

syg00 · 07-02-2017, 08:32 PM

Not so much gnome as video driver probably. I use Fedora habitually - including this laptop. Install inxi and post the output of this.

Code:

sudo inxi -Fm -c 0

!!! · 07-02-2017, 09:25 PM

Hi and welcome. It would be good to post some specific data, like from top, etc., from spending a bit of time researching on the web, about linux performance analysis basics/tutorial. http://www.linuxlinks.com/article/20...markTools.html
You can also find mulituser.target, to temporarily stop the GUI, without uninstalling, to see how things feel. Yes, it will be interesting to see what model graphics card (or the built-in ati es1000). Enjoy learning

p.s. Web search wild-guess: https://www.centos.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=53204 disk i/o!, which links to a blacklist... I'm looking forward to learning what "detective" techniques work here!!!

Apolymoxic · 07-03-2017, 06:07 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by syg00

Not so much gnome as video driver probably. I use Fedora habitually - including this laptop. Install inxi and post the output of this.

Code:

sudo inxi -Fm -c 0

System: Host: localhost.local Kernel: 4.8.6-300.fc25.x86_64 x86_64 (64 bit) Desktop: N/A
Distro: Fedora release 25 (Twenty Five)
Machine: Device: server System: Dell product: PowerEdge 2900 serial: *******
Mobo: Dell model: 0YM158 v: A00 serial: ..CN1374076S00V1. BIOS: Dell v: 1.3.7 date: 03/26/2007
CPU: Quad core Intel Xeon E5320 (-HT-MCP-) cache: 4096 KB
clock speeds: max: 1861 MHz 1: 1861 MHz 2: 1861 MHz 3: 1861 MHz 4: 1861 MHz
Memory: Array-1 capacity: 96 GB (est) devices: 12 EC: Multi-bit ECC
Device-1: DIMM1 size: 8 GB speed: 667 MT/s type: DDR2 FB-DIMM
Device-2: DIMM2 size: 8 GB speed: 667 MT/s type: DDR2 FB-DIMM
Device-3: DIMM3 size: 8 GB speed: 667 MT/s type: DDR2 FB-DIMM
Device-4: DIMM4 size: 8 GB speed: 667 MT/s type: DDR2 FB-DIMM
Device-5: DIMM5 size: 8 GB speed: 667 MT/s type: DDR2 FB-DIMM
Device-6: DIMM6 size: 8 GB speed: 667 MT/s type: DDR2 FB-DIMM
Device-7: DIMM7 size: No Module Installed type: DDR2 FB-DIMM
Device-8: DIMM8 size: No Module Installed type: DDR2 FB-DIMM
Device-9: DIMM9 size: No Module Installed type: DDR2 FB-DIMM
Device-10: DIMM10 size: No Module Installed type: DDR2 FB-DIMM
Device-11: DIMM11 size: No Module Installed type: DDR2 FB-DIMM
Device-12: DIMM12 size: No Module Installed type: DDR2 FB-DIMM
Graphics: Card: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] ES1000
Display Server: X.org 1.19.3 driver: N/A tty size: 158x44 Advanced Data: N/A for root
Network: Card-1: Broadcom Limited NetXtreme II BCM5708 Gigabit Ethernet driver: bnx2
IF: enp5s0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: 00:19:b9:da:d2:eb
Card-2: Broadcom Limited NetXtreme II BCM5708 Gigabit Ethernet driver: bnx2
IF: enp9s0 state: down mac: 00:19:b9:da:d2:ed
Drives: HDD Total Size: 2420.2GB (39.1% used)
ID-1: /dev/sdb model: PERC_5/i size: 1999.8GB
ID-2: /dev/sda model: PERC_5/i size: 292.3GB
ID-3: USB /dev/sdc model: Cruzer_Glide size: 128.0GB
Partition: ID-1: / size: 15G used: 5.9G (39%) fs: xfs dev: /dev/dm-0
ID-2: /boot size: 976M used: 111M (13%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda1
ID-3: swap-1 size: 25.39GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/dm-1
RAID: No RAID devices: /proc/mdstat, md_mod kernel module present
Sensors: System Temperatures: cpu: 51.0C mobo: N/A
Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu: N/A
Info: Processes: 245 Uptime: 1:05 Memory: 4560.6/48302.8MB Client: Shell (sudo) inxi: 2.3.11

Here is the info requested... I ended up making gnome not start automatically and starting it using startx. I am guessing that this graphics card can handle Xorg better than Wayland. So if I were to simply disable Wayland by default, and reenable the GUI to load on boot, I should be okay. Thoughts?

Apolymoxic · 07-04-2017, 07:07 PM

-- Duplicate

syg00 · 07-04-2017, 07:24 PM

[code] tags make output readable.

Code:

System:    Host: localhost.local Kernel: 4.8.6-300.fc25.x86_64 x86_64 (64 bit) Desktop: N/A
           Distro: Fedora release 25 (Twenty Five)
Machine:   Device: server System: Dell product: PowerEdge 2900 serial: ******
           Mobo: Dell model: 0YM158 v: A00 serial: ..CN1374076S00V1. BIOS: Dell v: 1.3.7 date: 03/26/2007
CPU:       Quad core Intel Xeon E5320 (-HT-MCP-) cache: 4096 KB 
           clock speeds: max: 1861 MHz 1: 1861 MHz 2: 1861 MHz 3: 1861 MHz 4: 1861 MHz
Memory:    Array-1 capacity: 96 GB (est) devices: 12 EC: Multi-bit ECC
           Device-1: DIMM1 size: 8 GB speed: 667 MT/s type: DDR2 FB-DIMM
           Device-2: DIMM2 size: 8 GB speed: 667 MT/s type: DDR2 FB-DIMM
           Device-3: DIMM3 size: 8 GB speed: 667 MT/s type: DDR2 FB-DIMM
           Device-4: DIMM4 size: 8 GB speed: 667 MT/s type: DDR2 FB-DIMM
           Device-5: DIMM5 size: 8 GB speed: 667 MT/s type: DDR2 FB-DIMM
           Device-6: DIMM6 size: 8 GB speed: 667 MT/s type: DDR2 FB-DIMM
           Device-7: DIMM7 size: No Module Installed type: DDR2 FB-DIMM
           Device-8: DIMM8 size: No Module Installed type: DDR2 FB-DIMM
           Device-9: DIMM9 size: No Module Installed type: DDR2 FB-DIMM
           Device-10: DIMM10 size: No Module Installed type: DDR2 FB-DIMM
           Device-11: DIMM11 size: No Module Installed type: DDR2 FB-DIMM
           Device-12: DIMM12 size: No Module Installed type: DDR2 FB-DIMM
Graphics:  Card: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] ES1000
           Display Server: X.org 1.19.3 driver: N/A tty size: 158x44 Advanced Data: N/A for root
Network:   Card-1: Broadcom Limited NetXtreme II BCM5708 Gigabit Ethernet driver: bnx2
           IF: enp5s0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: 00:19:b9:da:d2:eb
           Card-2: Broadcom Limited NetXtreme II BCM5708 Gigabit Ethernet driver: bnx2
           IF: enp9s0 state: down mac: 00:19:b9:da:d2:ed
Drives:    HDD Total Size: 2292.2GB (41.3% used)
           ID-1: /dev/sdb model: PERC_5/i size: 1999.8GB
           ID-2: /dev/sda model: PERC_5/i size: 292.3GB
Partition: ID-1: / size: 15G used: 8.0G (54%) fs: xfs dev: /dev/dm-0
           ID-2: /boot size: 976M used: 111M (13%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda1
           ID-3: swap-1 size: 25.39GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/dm-1
RAID:      No RAID devices: /proc/mdstat, md_mod kernel module present
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 49.0C mobo: N/A
           Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu: N/A
Info:      Processes: 217 Uptime: 1 day Memory: 2348.8/48302.8MB Client: Shell (sudo) inxi: 2.3.11

Interesting re wayland - haven't seen issues with that myself for a while.

syg00 · 07-04-2017, 09:20 PM

Looks like that ES1000 has been a problem child for a while. I would go with another DE (I like Mate in limited hardware, but have no experience of issues like this) - others seem to have successfully used LXDE or xfce. Though it's likely that was before Wayland.
I would also turn wayland off permanently, but given Fedora history, you may not have that option forever.

Edit: cancel that thought. Stay with gnome if it works, and just turn Wayland off.

Apolymoxic · 07-05-2017, 10:33 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by syg00

Looks like that ES1000 has been a problem child for a while. I would go with another DE (I like Mate in limited hardware, but have no experience of issues like this) - others seem to have successfully used LXDE or xfce. Though it's likely that was before Wayland.
I would also turn wayland off permanently, but given Fedora history, you may not have that option forever.

Edit: cancel that thought. Stay with gnome if it works, and just turn Wayland off.

Thanks for the tip on the [code] tag. I will keep that in mind in the future.

I will keep using gnome but turn off Wayland as suggested. Thank you for your help!