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 1LPofu-0006p9-Er for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 22 Jan 2009 01:48:06 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3D3B1E0477; Thu, 22 Jan 2009 01:48:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: from hades.rz.tu-clausthal.de (hades.rz.tu-clausthal.de [139.174.2.20]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0BC69E0477 for ; Thu, 22 Jan 2009 01:48:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: from hades.rz.tu-clausthal.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost (Postfix) with SMTP id 1DD0621DD3F for ; Thu, 22 Jan 2009 02:48:03 +0100 (CET) Received: from tu-clausthal.de (poseidon [139.174.2.21]) by hades.rz.tu-clausthal.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0DC0921DD3E for ; Thu, 22 Jan 2009 02:48:03 +0100 (CET) Received: from [139.174.197.94] (account wevah HELO energy.localnet) by tu-clausthal.de (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.2.11) with ESMTPSA id 40323855 for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 22 Jan 2009 02:48:02 +0100 From: Volker Armin Hemmann To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6.28-gentoo sources quite sluggish on Dell Inspiron 8100 / 1GHz PIII Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 02:47:57 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.11.90 (Linux/2.6.28r4; KDE/4.2.60; x86_64; ; ) References: <20090121194532.34064cce@spore.ath.cx> In-Reply-To: <20090121194532.34064cce@spore.ath.cx> 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="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200901220247.57994.volkerarmin@googlemail.com> X-Virus-Scanned: by PureMessage V5.5 at tu-clausthal.de X-Archives-Salt: 038b75f3-496d-4d6e-b510-334f20ffb6fb X-Archives-Hash: c7749c0ffcc997114d6383bf5a3d1f2c 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.