[gentoo-user] Re: Thanks and bye for now

[Nikos Chantziaras]

Norberto Bensa wrote:
> Quoting Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.de>:
>
>> On my Gentoo at home, yes.  The mouse cursor skips, scrolling gets
>> skippy/laggy too.  I have a dual core E6600@3.33Ghz with 4GB DDR2 RAM.
>
> Just like me, but I have it set to default clock: 2.4GHz. Beyond that,
> it gets somewhat funny :-/

I bought a CPU cooler the size of skyscraper though; it barely fits in 
the tower ;P  At stock 2.4GHz, it's a bit more laggy with heavy load.


> Are you sure your HDs run with DMA enabled? SATA shouldn't have this
> problem, but as technology gets cheaper, you never know :(

It's SATA.

It appears that the kernel gets slower and slower and more "laggy" on 
desktops with every release.  Servers seem to get happier though.  I 
hope they don't totally abandon the desktop at some point :P