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 1LQ1KQ-0004fw-5k for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 22 Jan 2009 15:18:46 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3322CE02F5; Thu, 22 Jan 2009 15:18:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from rv-out-0708.google.com (rv-out-0708.google.com [209.85.198.247]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 02648E02F5 for ; Thu, 22 Jan 2009 15:18:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: by rv-out-0708.google.com with SMTP id b17so4604517rvf.46 for ; Thu, 22 Jan 2009 07:18:42 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:sender:received:in-reply-to :references:date:x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=dajGY5Kr+UZ5SyBPRX8nI1xlzuun6zofpgrUc84aST8=; b=fqERvHRTC+dggX9GjLefK/jouh+O8Dlu8f8dxAbbn/itFP7b9m5fYLb6fnaxG9bFSo hreydvwWwt6BMvVt34FzRxnOE0Wk8hF0TK/ai4jJMImaXMX1tohXv2UYoz+SuCXHWsPZ D7WWMcK2uxKFn3YxbtTdAM4Z4nVaAkheNCR0U= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=VxJotjS89G4JluCCw8nSmbtw6zXGeXTboUhT9N+BI5piUbRw2Qy1syMcMuZsafcC00 bU5NNlIG5X7uXtf0QhUzeNIyvOzZRSgX6aqukahOy3bTOQdXzxfrWtYZWoT8JfFrQIYc J6kq/z6QjYFl/zvMeMgR3do+472tsVQEKPXf0= 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 Sender: paul.hartman@gmail.com Received: by 10.141.115.6 with SMTP id s6mr3380374rvm.58.1232637522620; Thu, 22 Jan 2009 07:18:42 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <4977E25C.1010404@gmail.com> References: <20090121194532.34064cce@spore.ath.cx> <200901220247.57994.volkerarmin@googlemail.com> <4977E25C.1010404@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 09:18:42 -0600 X-Google-Sender-Auth: 02e8f2c0c0e845ca Message-ID: <58965d8a0901220718m135e4c2ex5bc55f1fd3daf3a4@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6.28-gentoo sources quite sluggish on Dell Inspiron 8100 / 1GHz PIII From: Paul Hartman To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 28e79423-efca-4205-b5ed-5a7cfd5c1502 X-Archives-Hash: 7cf4b45b231f143019cd854c80ab1b8b 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)