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 1LQ7Ik-0005Ls-Tz for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 22 Jan 2009 21:41:27 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 43452E061F; Thu, 22 Jan 2009 21:41:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from rv-out-0708.google.com (rv-out-0708.google.com [209.85.198.244]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F2B5FE061F for ; Thu, 22 Jan 2009 21:41:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: by rv-out-0708.google.com with SMTP id b17so4767874rvf.46 for ; Thu, 22 Jan 2009 13:41:23 -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=ZKU0AuE0sK2sr2eLNd+104c62ptaqpyxNDJbN4X6Akw=; b=Jve1RThs99RnDgVytK4bRWHFqwbT9xFy+v8jVT+/TugLpNxnxS44XSyI+5/v34Fhmm inMsTrcD2x1qvpQ2rfzOppvyQzzWiWK/r+qwkdAauhKHPf+13hib8H9LCYYK2r+9rMRv FGk/7Ddcl+eXZGKpiOR72D+6Gq7uBtKEMIecU= 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=mxfIvg1hKU1f2LZ5zpnDCRYdxvuY659Z6xDd6y4NxE49j9uX6mj+1FaClnN/vG5FNZ Z+2KxdUSZKNQizDrkm2+VtqXOQYQB2QQvzdp0It0p88Z7/IQHs3Jd++pZg/HVfMTH6GL sAOS2gnkjDuV/j5j0XQt6bP6LfEKqbQzlmW44= 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 10.140.163.3 with SMTP id l3mr602344rve.226.1232660468066; Thu, 22 Jan 2009 13:41:08 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <4978E6BE.9050207@gmail.com> References: <20090121194532.34064cce@spore.ath.cx> <200901220247.57994.volkerarmin@googlemail.com> <4977E25C.1010404@gmail.com> <58965d8a0901220718m135e4c2ex5bc55f1fd3daf3a4@mail.gmail.com> <4978E6BE.9050207@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 15:41:08 -0600 X-Google-Sender-Auth: 075973ad74613634 Message-ID: <58965d8a0901221341m3c9e7fabp77766ab3d70140da@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: d20fff83-658e-4fb1-8873-41d19629e73e X-Archives-Hash: 602d307e17d41c459b26a99b074c3832 On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 3:35 PM, Dale wrote: > 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. I think, other than power-saving stuff, there shouldn't really be any big difference between desktop and laptop settings... http://linuxonlaptops.com has lots of info about specific configurations for various laptops.