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From: Gilles Carmel on 10 Sep 2009 10:26
Hello

I was running Linux Slackware 11.0, ran fine for several weeks until full
memory was being used; I just rebooted and the system ran fine again....

Now I have upgraded to Linux Slackware 12.2 and the system is painfully
slow. The problem is not the hard drive; I get good numbers using hdparm
-tT. Note that the installation took 24 hours (I have the 6 CD set)

When I look at the size of kcore, I get 106534912, meminfo says that I
have 3369372 kb of memory; 4 Gb are installed on the computer. Starting a
simple program such as pine takes 10-15 seconds, starting X is impossible,
I gave up after an hour. The kernel I used is the one provided on the
boot disk: hugesmp 2.6.27.7., CPU is an Intel dualcore 2.4 Ghz, Seagate
500 G SATA drive....

My guess is bad memory, but help is greatly appreciated.

Thanks

- Gilles

From: Stan Bischof on 10 Sep 2009 11:29
In comp.os.linux.misc Gilles Carmel <gilles(a)60.usenet.us.com> wrote:
> Hello
>
> My guess is bad memory, but help is greatly appreciated.
>

OK- I'll bite and ask the obvious:

have you run memtest to check the memory?

Stan
From: Henrik Carlqvist on 11 Sep 2009 02:26
gilles(a)60.usenet.us.com (Gilles Carmel) wrote:
> the system is painfully slow.

The first thing I would do then is to run dmesg to see if there are any
errors or warnings which could indicate where the problem comes from.

> My guess is bad memory, but help is greatly appreciated.

That theory could easily be verified by booting a disk with a memtest
program http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memtest86

regards Henrik
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