PII300+ASUS P2B Problem help needed

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2 total messages Started by Salim GASMI Fri, 15 May 1998 00:00

#730

Author: Salim GASMI
Date: Fri, 15 May 1998 00:00

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Well, I just have bought a new PC which is:

PII 300MhZ (not overclocked)
64 Mo ram 
Motherboard ASUS P2B (BX Chipset)
AGP ATI video card
voodoo2 card
D-Link PCI network card
D-Link ISA network card
Adaptec SCSI 2940
6 Go UDMA Seagate IDE Disk

I have installed RedHat 5 with kernel 2.0.32
the install from CD has taken less than 5 mins
and everything seemed fine.

after the install I have the following problem:

Disk writing seems very slow
when I do a tar xvzf of a linux-2.0.33.tar.gz
it writes and decompress 20 files and freeze for some seconds
does the following 20 files and freeze again some seconds
and so on .. the whole operation takes more than 5 mins !

What is amazing is that the installation process 
took less than 5 mins and now to decompress and untar
a 6 Mb archive it takes 5 mins.

The used kernel is the 2.0.32 provided in the RedHat 5.0

I thought it was an IDE problem since the controller
is on the motherboard card, thus I added a SCSI Disk
on the adaptec, and tryed the same test, same result....

If someone has any advices, kernel options to try, anything
that may help, please email me at salim@gasmi.net

Ooops I forgot to say, under Win95 everything is fine
and is on the same disk.


Thanks in advance

Salim

Re: PII300+ASUS P2B Problem help needed

#729

Author: Francois Petillon
Date: Fri, 15 May 1998 00:00

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Salim GASMI (salim@gasmi.net) wrote:
: I have installed RedHat 5 with kernel 2.0.32
: Disk writing seems very slow
: when I do a tar xvzf of a linux-2.0.33.tar.gz
: it writes and decompress 20 files and freeze for some seconds
: does the following 20 files and freeze again some seconds
: and so on .. the whole operation takes more than 5 mins !

This problem has been fixed, you should have a look from times to times to
redhat product errata (www.redhat.com) :
> Package: initscripts 
> Updated: 10-Mar-1998 
> Problem:
[...]
> This also fixes the extremely slow tar extractions (a specific case of
> general user and group lookname brokeness) 

get the patch & intall it! You should get others fix too, as it may fix
futures problems ;-)

    Fantec

Following is a translation into french as it has been posted in
fr.comp.os.linux :

Les probl�mes de lenteur du tar sont r�solus par la mise � jour du package
initscripts. L'inventaire des mises � jour est disponible chez redhat
(www.redhat.com) et y jeter un coup d'oeil n'est jamais une perte de temps
(surtout quand on a des probl�mes). De m�me, une lecture des archives 
(r�centes) de fcol t'aurait permis de retrouver cette r�ponse. Il peut
�galement �tre utile de ramener les autres corrections, celles-ci peuvent
t'eviter de retomber sur d'autres probl�mes.

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