Gentoo Archives: gentoo-hardened

From: Brian Kroth <bpkroth@××××.edu>
To: gentoo-hardened@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-hardened] 2.6.20-r2 is slow!?
Date: Fri, 04 May 2007 16:00:50
Message-Id: 463B580B.1080900@wisc.edu
In Reply to: [gentoo-hardened] 2.6.20-r2 is slow!? by 7v5w7go9ub0o <7v5w7go9ub0o@gmail.com>
1 I just updated to test this as well on a test server. So far I don't
2 notice anything out of the ordinary. Can you give me some idea of what
3 seems slow? What sort of services are you interacting with? I've
4 attached my related configs.
5
6 Thanks,
7 Brian
8
9 7v5w7go9ub0o wrote:
10 > Just installed 2.6.20-r2, and find it particularly slow - slow to boot,
11 > slow to operate (high cpu), while 2.6.18-r6 is quick, with low cpu useage.
12 >
13 > Any ideas, please? (e.g. there was a configuration option a few releases
14 > ago that snuck in and slowed things down; I've forgotten which it was :-( )
15 >
16 > (Same kernel configurations; had to update udev from 104-r12 to 109-r1
17 > to keep from crashing during the boot process; replaced firehol with
18 > shorewall 3.4.2, which works on 2.6.18-r6 just fine, but fails on
19 > 2.6.20-r2 . Did not upgrade gradm, as it's likely I'll stay with '18)
20 >
21 > TIA

Attachments

File name MIME type
configs.tar.bz2 application/x-bzip