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 1LPpgo-00012k-DS for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 22 Jan 2009 02:53:06 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id AA587E02D6; Thu, 22 Jan 2009 02:53:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: from spore.ath.cx (mail.farrellit.net [66.191.143.114]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 911D5E02D6 for ; Thu, 22 Jan 2009 02:53:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (albert.spore.ath.cx [192.168.2.101]) by spore.ath.cx (Postfix) with ESMTP id 67B064DD705 for ; Wed, 21 Jan 2009 20:53:03 -0600 (CST) Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2009 20:53:02 -0600 From: Dan Farrell To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6.28-gentoo sources quite sluggish on Dell Inspiron 8100 / 1GHz PIII Message-ID: <20090121205302.1ca0c71d@spore.ath.cx> In-Reply-To: <200901220247.57994.volkerarmin@googlemail.com> References: <20090121194532.34064cce@spore.ath.cx> <200901220247.57994.volkerarmin@googlemail.com> 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: 2c58e2e3-021d-4308-b441-98066a359487 X-Archives-Hash: 70061d8b5ed2131378b1de264a2ad384 On Thu, 22 Jan 2009 02:47:57 +0100 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > On Donnerstag 22 Januar 2009, Dan Farrell wrote: > > 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? > > group scheduling? get rid of it. > Good thought! I didn't have it on though. Not particularly useful on a laptop. I fixed it though; it ended up being the BIOS. An upgrade from 8 to 15 and it's like a new computer. Yay! Thanks for the response.