RHELv4 and v5 - So slow as to be unusable.

[Laszlo Beres]

On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 9:22 PM, Gary E Barnes <gebarnes at us.ibm.com> wrote:

> "top" says that nothing is going on although the load average is 3+.
> "sar" also says that nothing is going on.

There's no such thing "nothing is going on". You should see CPU
status, process status, etc. vmstat also can give you some hints about
the system health.

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