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From: Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6.28-gentoo sources quite sluggish on Dell Inspiron 8100 / 1GHz PIII
Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 01:48:06
Message-Id: 200901220247.57994.volkerarmin@googlemail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] 2.6.28-gentoo sources quite sluggish on Dell Inspiron 8100 / 1GHz PIII by Dan Farrell
1 On Donnerstag 22 Januar 2009, Dan Farrell wrote:
2 > Hi all,
3 >
4 > I recently updated my dell Inspirion 8100's software after I found to
5 > my suprise I could no longer play video fast enough to watch. I did a
6 > kernel upgrade from 2.6.24 to 2.6.28, with a number of
7 > reconfigurations, including moving from madwifi to in-kernel ath5k.
8 > Also updated nvidia-drivers to go along with the new system.
9 >
10 > Now my system is extremely sluggish. It updates the screen very slowly
11 > in X and CPU performance is noticably slower without X running too.
12 > WiFi speed is dismal.
13 >
14 > I tried to remove all cruft and extras from the kernel, but I haven't
15 > managed to improve matters yet. Since it now takes hours to update the
16 > system, I was hoping someone might have and idea as to what the cause
17 > of the slowdown might be.
18 >
19 > Sound Familiar? Any guesses?
20
21 group scheduling? get rid of it.

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