From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LPodf-0006Mx-1b for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 22 Jan 2009 01:45:47 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5EFF5E0441; Thu, 22 Jan 2009 01:45:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from spore.ath.cx (mail.farrellit.net [66.191.143.114]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 431A5E0441 for ; Thu, 22 Jan 2009 01:45:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (albert.spore.ath.cx [192.168.2.101]) by spore.ath.cx (Postfix) with ESMTP id C2F2D4DD6BB for ; Wed, 21 Jan 2009 19:45:44 -0600 (CST) Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2009 19:45:32 -0600 From: Dan Farrell To: Subject: [gentoo-user] 2.6.28-gentoo sources quite sluggish on Dell Inspiron 8100 / 1GHz PIII Message-ID: <20090121194532.34064cce@spore.ath.cx> Followup-To: Dan Farrell X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.0.2 (GTK+ 2.12.1; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 0432c31c-9b52-4cf8-b6ae-4f0140844637 X-Archives-Hash: bbc5fb073fb2c632e87f67a522e6ec40 Hi all, I recently updated my dell Inspirion 8100's software after I found to my suprise I could no longer play video fast enough to watch. I did a kernel upgrade from 2.6.24 to 2.6.28, with a number of reconfigurations, including moving from madwifi to in-kernel ath5k. Also updated nvidia-drivers to go along with the new system. Now my system is extremely sluggish. It updates the screen very slowly in X and CPU performance is noticably slower without X running too. WiFi speed is dismal. I tried to remove all cruft and extras from the kernel, but I haven't managed to improve matters yet. Since it now takes hours to update the system, I was hoping someone might have and idea as to what the cause of the slowdown might be. Sound Familiar? Any guesses?