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On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 10:38 PM, fire-eyes <sgtphou@×××××××××.org> wrote: |
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> Hello, |
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> I'm running gentoo on an IBM Thinkpad T43. In the past, disk access was |
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> fine under load (CPU or disk). These days, the disk becomes painfully |
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> slow under moderate to high CPU usage (such as compiling) or copying |
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> more than a few MB. GUI's become almost totally unresponsive and at |
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> times I have to down the system hard. |
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> So it seems it's some sort of a change in kernels compared to the past. |
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> I have always run a vanilla kernel, manually configured and installed. |
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> Right now I am running 2.6.24.3. |
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> The system uses an SATA disk drive. |
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> Here is the boot line in grub.conf: |
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> kernel /boot/vmlinuz-stable root=/dev/sda4 rw hdc=noprobe |
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> acpi_sleep=s3_bios panic=5 elevator=cfq nmi_watchdog=0 |
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> /boot/vmlinuz-stable being a symlink to the kernel I consider "stable" |
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> within /boot/. I also have vmlinuz-last called by another grub entry if |
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> I need it. |
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> Here is my kernel config: http://fire-eyes.org/t/config-2.6.24.3.txt |
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> (may disappear in the future) |
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> I am looking for feedback into what may be causing this mess. It makes |
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> for a very frustrating time using this laptop. |
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What is the version of the kernel where you did not have issues? |
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2.6.24 and 23 have a new CPU scheduler (CFS), which "should" work |
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better than the old one. It is possible that the new scheduler does |
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not suit your needs. |
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Tell us the kernel version that work well for you, and we'll if it |
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might be a regression of CFS in 24 or a possible weakness of CFS. |
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> Thank you! |
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