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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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Thank you! |
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