From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1G9Ezs-00009p-HI for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 05 Aug 2006 05:46:52 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with SMTP id k755j5bj012409; Sat, 5 Aug 2006 05:45:05 GMT Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k755j5Qd028597 for ; Sat, 5 Aug 2006 05:45:05 GMT Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1G9Ey8-00086J-GY for gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org; Sat, 05 Aug 2006 07:45:04 +0200 Received: from ip68-230-97-209.ph.ph.cox.net ([68.230.97.209]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 05 Aug 2006 07:45:04 +0200 Received: from 1i5t5.duncan by ip68-230-97-209.ph.ph.cox.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 05 Aug 2006 07:45:04 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org From: "Duncan" <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net> Subject: [gentoo-amd64] Re: emerge make my comp slow :( Date: Sat, 5 Aug 2006 05:44:55 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <20060804172357.72019.qmail@web8601.mail.in.yahoo.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: ip68-230-97-209.ph.ph.cox.net User-Agent: pan 0.105 (When Churchill opened the door, it was a new car, a Chevrolet Nova.) Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: ca2cccc6-6f4b-4e0b-8c5b-2c88897afd7f X-Archives-Hash: 4ad71aa03e149260d2d020d9f6f5b86a "Luigi Cristalli" posted bacd36480608041740r1b41d2d7neea4a898a6fa567b@mail.gmail.com, excerpted below, on Sat, 05 Aug 2006 02:40:08 +0200: > Almost one year ago I helped a friend of mine to get a working gentoo > linux box on an Acer Ferrari (AMD 64). . I was surprised because it was so > slow when I tried to emerge something! :-D Finally I found the DMA was > off...can U believe? :-D check it making: > > #hdparm /dev/hda | grep using_dma > > if it's set to 0 (off) we know our enemy! :-D That was going to be my suggestion! =8^) So yeah, you have two votes for checking DMA. If it's off, particularly if you are swapping, that /could/ be killing responsiveness, including mouse. Note that if you are using the wrong IDE/SATA/SCSI chipset drivers, it's likely you'll have no luck trying to turn DMA on, until you get the right drivers. In particular, I noted one guy earlier this week with SATA, generic IDE, and some Via chipset IDE, all turned on at once, according to his dmesg. The generic was loading first so the Via, while it detected the chip, couldn't load as the generic was already loaded. There's a good chance he was running without DMA as a result. The SATA drivers likely weren't interfering with DMA, but dmesg didn't say any SATA drives were recognized, so chances are he had the chip but no drives hung off it, so that too might as well have been disabled. Hope you get it working, in any case! -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list