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 1LQ7Dc-0004hs-Hc for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 22 Jan 2009 21:36:08 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B40C6E07BC; Thu, 22 Jan 2009 21:36:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from qw-out-1920.google.com (qw-out-1920.google.com [74.125.92.149]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8064CE07BC for ; Thu, 22 Jan 2009 21:36:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: by qw-out-1920.google.com with SMTP id 5so1370633qwc.10 for ; Thu, 22 Jan 2009 13:36:05 -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=HBRvjpgHREifu0AguChxdR2bBxZxbkYxPDeCkpnx02A=; b=j3ft8sxlTwQZDtePX0vzB9a0SXfK618dtGQ1a4naShjjaeHNzQKmhD98l6XjRtdFbq zE2ChGRV3Arsxpej2OmA+pQVDRf3enmzxxDFRrnxHbLGrld0Yhubg9bDc+d2J33WvsJr VOrHvDKB/Fn2/WWS8XTDqAAV0I+hD2lXNvnxY= 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=fO1riLrVi8WfatqIXTqhYwPgpHOnh7ePllrtKbZHrm8EA1OdEHpJCrJhDhdIzcgm7B SyigPI/nh5732/Y7Hi4a8WANZB3BGubzKoYBZfSi3IctJXjSffrTTIK3tZJS+MjVPz/o zmCGKo/WiQmmc0zT228j/mkGP+6UC01lYJ/6E= Received: by 10.214.148.10 with SMTP id v10mr3149595qad.287.1232660165158; Thu, 22 Jan 2009 13:36:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from ?4.231.80.226? (dialup-4.231.80.226.Dial1.Houston1.Level3.net [4.231.80.226]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 6sm11286161ywn.37.2009.01.22.13.36.01 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Thu, 22 Jan 2009 13:36:04 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4978E6BE.9050207@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 15:35:58 -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> <4977E25C.1010404@gmail.com> <58965d8a0901220718m135e4c2ex5bc55f1fd3daf3a4@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <58965d8a0901220718m135e4c2ex5bc55f1fd3daf3a4@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: b9821411-7bf1-4442-bf4d-b87f1c718639 X-Archives-Hash: e8bb6618bf4c1468d5a2c4908c5b7708 Paul Hartman wrote: > On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 9:05 PM, Dale wrote: > >> 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 >> > > On my laptop it is noticeably sluggish when using SLUB instead of SLAB > (despite SLUB being the default, I find it to be worse every time I've > tried it so far) > > > Is there a howto for this sort of thing? From what I read here and other places, some laptops are really confusing but there are even desktops that have issues with some new features. How does one get a idea of what they should try? I remember a list ages ago when I first installed Gentoo that has a list of CPUs andsome of the options a person could put in make.conf. I think we need one of those, maybe on a wiki or something, that lists models and what setting really work. I think laptops would really benefit from this. I have never had a laptop but they seem to be tricky to be nice about it. Dale :-) :-)