Very slow sed...

[David Cross]

http://downloadmirror.intel.com/13348/ENG/MQ_1687_ReleaseNotes.pdf

There it is, the smoking gun.  Release 1676... wow.. .that's an obscure 
one.

Thanks you all again!
-- 
David E. Cross

On Wed, 20 Jun 2007, David Cross wrote:

> Thanks all.. it was the memory.  It wasn't "bad".. .memtest (or anythign else 
> didn't actually fail, the only way I could tell is with a stopwatch and 
> watching loop times)... but pulling 1/2 of the RAM fixed it.. it doesn't 
> matter which set was in, as long as both sets its fine.
>
> -- 
> David E. Cross
>
> On Wed, 20 Jun 2007, Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Jun 20, 2007 at 10:24:01AM -0400, David Cross wrote:
>>>  Ok the subject line is misleading.. but I don't know how else to put it. 
>>> I
>>>  have a machine on which SOME programs are slow.  VERY SLOW.  Other 
>>> programs
>>>  run just fine.  I cannot seem to find the source of the problem.
>> 
>> Two things I can think of:
>> 
>> 1) Memory issues -- memtest86 could help show this kind of problem.  Try
>> removing memory, and if the problem continues, swapping the pair you
>> removed with the pair that's installed.
>> 
>> 2) Disk issues -- reading /usr/bin/sed off the disk where there's a
>> soon-to-be-bad block.  The disk may be trying to work around it and
>> doing a delayed read (inducing EC).  This seems less likely to be the
>> case than bad memory, but I've seen it happen.
>> 
>> -- 
>> | Jeremy Chadwick                                    jdc at parodius.com |
>> | Parodius Networking                           http://www.parodius.com/ |
>> | UNIX Systems Administrator                      Mountain View, CA, USA |
>> | Making life hard for others since 1977.                  PGP: 4BD6C0CB |
>> 
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