What's a good group to ask Redhat Linux admin questions?

I have a 4 CPU Redhat Linux host that's running slow.  It's both memory
and IO bound so it's paging and disk accesses are competing with each
other.

The biggest CPU consumer is nautilus the GUI file manager.  It seems
to be doing constant disk accesses.  Since it's running as root on the
console it access the entire tree.  The folks in the data center would
rather not exit it.

I did a bit of cruising on the Rehat web site but got tutorials on what
it
does not on what files to use to configure it.  How would I instruct it
to
not descend into specific directories like the Oracle tree, to keep its
polling rate slow?

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On 1 Dec 2006, in the Usenet newsgroup comp.unix.admin, in article
<1165002776.358874.126480@16g2000cwy.googlegroups.com>, Doug Freyburger wrot
e:

>What's a good group to ask Redhat Linux admin questions?

If you look at the Big-Eight newsgroup list (posted to the Usenet groups
news.announce.newgroups, news.groups and news.lists.misc on the 15th of
every month), the suggestion seems to be comp.os.linux.setup, but I'd
suggest you'd have better luck on comp.os.linux.misc

comp.os.linux.misc      Linux-specific topics not covered by other groups.
comp.os.linux.setup     Linux installation and system administration.

merely on the number of readers.  There are also groups like 'linux.redhat'
and 'alt.os.linux.redhat' but I'm less impressed with the quality of the
answers posted there.

>I have a 4 CPU Redhat Linux host that's running slow.  It's both memory
>and IO bound so it's paging and disk accesses are competing with each
>other.
>
>The biggest CPU consumer is nautilus the GUI file manager.  It seems
>to be doing constant disk accesses.  Since it's running as root on the
>console it access the entire tree.  The folks in the data center would
>rather not exit it.

This sounds like a server. What are you running a GUI on a server for?

>I did a bit of cruising on the Rehat web site but got tutorials on what
>it does not on what files to use to configure it.  How would I instruct
>it to not descend into specific directories like the Oracle tree, to
>keep its polling rate slow?

Can't help there. What does 'rpm -ql gnome-mount-nautilus-properties'
tell you? Likewise 'rpm -ql `rpm -qa | grep nautilus`'?  I don't know,
I'm just looking at the package names.

Old guy

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Moe Trin wrote:
> Doug Freyburger wrote:
> 
>
> If you look at the Big-Eight newsgroup list (posted to the Usenet groups
> news.announce.newgroups, news.groups and news.lists.misc on the 15th of
> every month), the suggestion seems to be comp.os.linux.setup, but I'd
> suggest you'd have better luck on comp.os.linux.misc
>
> comp.os.linux.misc      Linux-specific topics not covered by other groups.
> comp.os.linux.setup     Linux installation and system administration.

Thanks.
 
>
> This sounds like a server. What are you running a GUI on a server for?

I'm second level remote support.  I've asked the first level on-site
support that question ...

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Doug Freyburger wrote:
> What's a good group to ask Redhat Linux admin questions?
>
> I have a 4 CPU Redhat Linux host that's running slow.  It's both memory
> and IO bound so it's paging and disk accesses are competing with each
> other.
>
> The biggest CPU consumer is nautilus the GUI file manager.  It seems
> to be doing constant disk accesses.  Since it's running as root on the
> console it access the entire tree.  The folks in the data center would
> rather not exit it.
>
> I did a bit of cruising on the Rehat web site but got tutorials on what
> it
> does not on what files to use to configure it.  How would I instruct it
> to
> not descend into specific directories like the Oracle tree, to keep its
> polling rate slow?

Just curious, what versions (Linux, GNOME, and Nautilus) are running
there? I'm not seeing the behavior here, but only had a chance to test
with the following configurations:

Fedora Core 5, GNOME 2.14.3, Nautilus 2.14.3
RHEL 4, GNOME 2.8.0, Nautilus 2.8.1

I noticed there's a little control Nautilus (Edit->Preferences->Preview
Tab) but it's not clear whether that produces anywhere near the same
amount of traversal.

Regards,
Jon

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Jon wrote:
> Doug Freyburger wrote:
> 
> 
>
> Just curious, what versions (Linux, GNOME, and Nautilus) are running
> there? I'm not seeing the behavior here, but only had a chance to test
> with the following configurations:
>
> Fedora Core 5, GNOME 2.14.3, Nautilus 2.14.3
> RHEL 4, GNOME 2.8.0, Nautilus 2.8.1

I was called in to do a quick performance analysis and didn't write
down that level of detail.

> I noticed there's a little control Nautilus (Edit->Preferences->Preview
> Tab) but it's not clear whether that produces anywhere near the same
> amount of traversal.

Cool, thanks.  So I need access to the GUI and I don't have that.
I've asked the folks with the physical console access to turn it off.

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