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On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 9:05 PM, Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: |
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>> On Donnerstag 22 Januar 2009, Dan Farrell wrote: |
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>>> Hi all, |
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>>> I recently updated my dell Inspirion 8100's software after I found to |
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>>> my suprise I could no longer play video fast enough to watch. I did a |
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>>> kernel upgrade from 2.6.24 to 2.6.28, with a number of |
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>>> reconfigurations, including moving from madwifi to in-kernel ath5k. |
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>>> Also updated nvidia-drivers to go along with the new system. |
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>>> Now my system is extremely sluggish. It updates the screen very slowly |
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>>> in X and CPU performance is noticably slower without X running too. |
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>>> WiFi speed is dismal. |
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>>> I tried to remove all cruft and extras from the kernel, but I haven't |
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>>> managed to improve matters yet. Since it now takes hours to update the |
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>>> system, I was hoping someone might have and idea as to what the cause |
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>>> of the slowdown might be. |
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>>> Sound Familiar? Any guesses? |
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>>> |
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>> group scheduling? get rid of it. |
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> I have been using 2.6.23 kernel for a while for the same reason. I'm |
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> going to check my config now. |
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> Dale |
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On my laptop it is noticeably sluggish when using SLUB instead of SLAB |
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(despite SLUB being the default, I find it to be worse every time I've |
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tried it so far) |
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