From: Beau Henderson <beau@thehenderson.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] New laptop is slow.
Date: Fri, 09 Oct 2009 09:28:34 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4ACE75A2.7010703@thehenderson.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49bf44f10910062002n420debdaj9f21a716d041458e@mail.gmail.com>
G'day,
Grant wrote:
> I just finished installing Gentoo on a Dell Vostro 1320 laptop. It
> has a 2.2Ghz Core Duo CPU, 3GB RAM, and a 7200RPM hard drive.
> Navigating within firefox is pretty slow. It's the response time of
> the application, not the network. It's much slower than my previous
> laptop which has much weaker specs.
>
> I noticed the HD light comes on when the system is pausing in firefox
> sometimes. I don't have any swap at all, I'm using the CFQ, and /tmp
> is mounted on tmpfs. Can anyone suggest where to look?
>
> - Grant
>
Slightly related, but you might want to check and make sure your HD isn't grinding itself to a quick
death as is always the case when I'm setting up a laptop:
http://en.opensuse.org/Disk_Power_Management
--
Beau Henderson
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-10-08 23:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-10-07 3:02 [gentoo-user] New laptop is slow Grant
2009-10-07 13:25 ` [gentoo-user] " James
2009-10-07 15:37 ` [gentoo-user] " Paul Hartman
2009-10-07 16:34 ` Grant
2009-10-07 17:05 ` kashani
2009-10-07 17:33 ` [gentoo-user] " James
2009-10-08 1:01 ` daid kahl
2009-10-09 20:11 ` Grant
2009-10-08 16:11 ` Paul Hartman
2009-10-09 20:08 ` [gentoo-user] " Grant
2009-10-08 23:28 ` Beau Henderson [this message]
2009-10-09 20:09 ` Grant
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