On Friday 15 October 2004 15:09, Istvan Soos wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I'm newbie to the lists of gentoo, so excuse me if i've posted this message
> to the wrong place. I have performance problems with my gentoo.
> All the time I use disk (compile, vmware, copy, something) my computer
> slows down. What I've done:
> - emerged a system from stage3
> - kernel with preemptive
> - emerged kde 3.3.1 (not full yet, but using)
> - prelink
> - undo preemptive
> - undo prelink
>
> And nothing, nothing changed. I had no such problem before on my notebook
> (P4HT, Ati, everything worked), so I'm not sure what to do. If I run 'top',
> the waiting time is _very_ large, and there is (?) continous disk usage.
>
> Cpu(s):  0.4% us,  1.2% sy,  0.1% ni,  0.4% id, 97.8% wa,  0.0% hi,  0.0%
> si top - 14:52:46 up 30 min,  4 users,  load average: 8.54, 7.77, 5.44
> Tasks: 100 total,   1 running,  99 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
>
> Any suggestion?
>
> Thanks, Istvan
>
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is your MB chipset a SiS? I had a coupple of bad experiences with this chiset.

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