[lug] sluggish machine

[Collins Richey]

On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 4:18 PM, Nate Duehr <nate at natetech.com> wrote:
> I'd look first at two things...
>

>
> Next I'd grab a CD with memtest86 on it (CentOS install CD, for example
> has it... you just type memtest86 at the CD boot prompt) and let it go
> to town for a while on the RAM for a bit just to make sure some of it
> hasn't gone south...
>

Second vote for a memory check. Some of the wierdest problems I've had
were due to failing memory, but then it was usually segfault rather
than high cpu utilization.

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Collins Richey
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