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 1MvWWt-0001Ih-An for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 07 Oct 2009 13:26:07 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1CEE6E0AEB; Wed, 7 Oct 2009 13:26:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF25FE0AEB for ; Wed, 7 Oct 2009 13:26:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 91AA167E82 for ; Wed, 7 Oct 2009 13:26:05 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -2.497 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.497 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=0.102, BAYES_00=-2.599] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id PE8wbppouqR9 for ; Wed, 7 Oct 2009 13:25:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E404D67E2D for ; Wed, 7 Oct 2009 13:25:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1MvWWZ-0003rB-Qd for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Wed, 07 Oct 2009 15:25:47 +0200 Received: from buffer.net ([24.73.161.102]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 07 Oct 2009 15:25:47 +0200 Received: from wireless by buffer.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 07 Oct 2009 15:25:47 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: James Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: New laptop is slow. Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2009 13:25:24 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <49bf44f10910062002n420debdaj9f21a716d041458e@mail.gmail.com> 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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: sea.gmane.org User-Agent: Loom/3.14 (http://gmane.org/) X-Loom-IP: 24.73.161.102 (Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.8.1.23) Gecko/20090930 SeaMonkey/1.1.18) Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: 601d266b-06ad-439e-a525-1d2f25fa6785 X-Archives-Hash: b7c523092128b8c5dbcc2d1076e2fe4e Grant gmail.com> writes: > Can anyone suggest where to look? Could be lots of things. /usr/portage/sys-process contains some tools like htop and iotop. bonnie and bonnie++ can benchmark the HDrive. could be in the installation. Maybe sync and update a few times to ensure all is clean. lshw will give you detailed listing of your hardware. Research (google) the components (cpu, ram, disk) to see if any are slow performers. If your running KDE4 it could be anakonda (spelling?). Just start eliminating what is could be, and that's a large list.... hth, James