From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MvYa4-00053C-Eo for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 07 Oct 2009 15:37:32 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0BAA7E0B58; Wed, 7 Oct 2009 15:37:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-yw0-f183.google.com (mail-yw0-f183.google.com [209.85.211.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C5ACCE0B58 for ; Wed, 7 Oct 2009 15:37:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ywh13 with SMTP id 13so4996711ywh.31 for ; Wed, 07 Oct 2009 08:37:30 -0700 (PDT) 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; bh=5aa9fxh59W7aqqoM0CU7BNJfTAkZmOTHyx3xOUtDj38=; b=dfpCY35X406lHqLwHzdFHbpEmMquKhNlOvxXxMvL9GMj3njCaY1xjsKT53MEvODEIe h32G3UjpF8DPSSLqA8f9+lo0BATGt1+AnQQWIeSKJ8hIVC5qXio0QgtPM/hJgJkF/hqM MXiMZmkEwKfb/c6u8nB6EoWZgaIQdVg7CgK8Q= 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; b=TEZ4L5kRHBOSlGtS/48hbfJYy9L7rw5VmLnOq1Sdo8OeJY/RL3ZC4bm+9h3iQ+GnGj yuB15Z6PlTzZL03aKfqn/NyWxwRoeN00DvrgxZ45u1hsCtg0g6RRJM+mlj3IgcGAKzZp TLbVSscA7sdL+pNaKJo5hscblNFj9fjxiXo9I= 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 10.150.8.3 with SMTP id 3mr308675ybh.62.1254929850519; Wed, 07 Oct 2009 08:37:30 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <49bf44f10910062002n420debdaj9f21a716d041458e@mail.gmail.com> References: <49bf44f10910062002n420debdaj9f21a716d041458e@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2009 10:37:30 -0500 X-Google-Sender-Auth: 3affb72ffaee0374 Message-ID: <58965d8a0910070837t6ebfcebew1dc06762dea31f8a@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] New laptop is slow. From: Paul Hartman To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Archives-Salt: 3bad0398-aa3f-40e0-a574-9f52a158417d X-Archives-Hash: 27d0ab64cbcd4294af16b776b06d6f82 On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 10:02 PM, 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? When you're not using X does it still seem slow? You don't mention what kind of video or arch vs ~arch, but I would try different AccelMethod options in your xorg.conf. On my laptop everything in X was very slow until I set Option "AccelMethod" "EXA"