Setting up Ubuntu server - Questions

[sandyd]

moved to server platforms

[AvengerX9]

Now its ready, but it has a very slow response in terminal when I write a command such as sudo apt-get install apache2 it came up with a line "building dependency tree 0%" and 5 minutes later it started on 1% and now its been stuck on the line "preconfiguring packages" for another 2-3 minutes.

Took me about 10 minutes to install Apache2!!

Whats going on here ? Please help!!

[CharlesA]

If you are at a terminal still, run top and see what it says.

[AvengerX9]

Okay, just waiting now for the webadmin to finish installing. Been doing for the last 30 minutes. Mysql took about an hour! On the other computer it was way faster than this.

[AvengerX9]

Okay, I somehow aborted the installation of webmin for now and I typed top and I get a big list with lots of numbers. The server load says 0.30 - 1.59 - 1.89

[sandyd]

What hardware are you running Ubuntu Server on?

[AvengerX9]

  *-cpu
       description: CPU
       product: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2400 CPU @ 3.10GHz
       vendor: Intel Corp.
       physical id: e
       bus info: cpu@0
       version: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2400 CPU @ 3.10GHz
       slot: CPUSocket
       size: 1600MHz
       capacity: 3800MHz
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 100MHz
       capabilities: x86-64 fpu fpu_exception wp vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe syscall nx rdtscp constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts rep_good nopl xtopology nonstop_tsc aperfmperf pni pclmulqdq dtes64 monitor ds_cpl vmx smx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr pdcm pcid sse4_1 sse4_2 x2apic popcnt tsc_deadline_timer aes xsave avx lahf_lm ida arat epb xsaveopt pln pts dtherm tpr_shadow vnmi flexpriority ept vpid cpufreq
       configuration: cores=4 enabledcores=4 threads=4

             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:          7950       1721       6228          0        110       1215
-/+ buffers/cache:        395       7554
Swap:         8151          0       8151

[AvengerX9]

It complains about it cannot find a FQDN so its using localhost or 127.0.0.1 instead. Can that be the reason?

When running top again I see there are a list of CPU's on the top which are 0%us | 0%sy | 0%ni | 100%id | 0%wa | 0%hi | 0%si | 0%ST

I can hardly login now on my last attempt. After typing the password it stays for minutes then I get the message "System information disabled due to load higher than 4.0"

[CharlesA]

It complains about it cannot find a FQDN so its using localhost or 127.0.0.1 instead. Can that be the reason?

That message is just informational and means you haven't set the ServerName directive in apache. That wouldn't cause the machine to take a long time to install, though.

Is you run this, what does the load averages say?

uptime

[AvengerX9]

Is you run this, what does the load averages say?

uptime

The average load is 2.14 | 1.88 | 2.05