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 1LPpsU-00023U-FJ for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 22 Jan 2009 03:05:10 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5297DE04C7; Thu, 22 Jan 2009 03:05:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-qy0-f20.google.com (mail-qy0-f20.google.com [209.85.221.20]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 29A76E04C7 for ; Thu, 22 Jan 2009 03:05:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: by qyk13 with SMTP id 13so6171432qyk.10 for ; Wed, 21 Jan 2009 19:05:06 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=WMZsfD1qcY8AjbyvQpiQTVq5p0cf6TVqL7XK5k0FV+w=; b=aNLtuImZLKOyywaJpWYWWWF4pR2ZYUEygVj75n0kJFk0A/3edtHrLOPaOts2aL95yt tMR0gpqa1Fd8DbGL3lMGtzLsmleiKgz6Uld034nKjfgKDWXI8QtRkvzfCZQI3uuTIJRh FYSz/hmkqhnkBsbybdLOCso5Q1+W+J5kzA1K0= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=qEq033NgLw/69ioPqYHgjcNtt9jWVKolUMg7/oEyeeD+t2HLBNz+fg6TrVU3SaitZB eAoo1Ypg9004B5oqEASXT+y8LeK58pWyaE9MhJtmHQzF2+fvO59LNofbGLIP+POcS1qF 7RaI4eY9QuWOMz6P0+VikdkUXc7HEvAhZVGuQ= Received: by 10.215.66.17 with SMTP id t17mr152079qak.230.1232593506907; Wed, 21 Jan 2009 19:05:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from ?4.231.83.42? (dialup-4.231.83.42.Dial1.Houston1.Level3.net [4.231.83.42]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 5sm10193730ywl.31.2009.01.21.19.05.04 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Wed, 21 Jan 2009 19:05:06 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4977E25C.1010404@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2009 21:05:00 -0600 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.19) Gecko/20081227 SeaMonkey/1.1.14 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6.28-gentoo sources quite sluggish on Dell Inspiron 8100 / 1GHz PIII References: <20090121194532.34064cce@spore.ath.cx> <200901220247.57994.volkerarmin@googlemail.com> In-Reply-To: <200901220247.57994.volkerarmin@googlemail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: a7a1758f-68a5-48ef-ac5e-15766dee3230 X-Archives-Hash: ebedd49dfb6b84ac98d8cb8c2b2fcb53 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. > > > > I have been using 2.6.23 kernel for a while for the same reason. I'm going to check my config now. Dale :-) :-)