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From: Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.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 03:05:10
Message-Id: 4977E25C.1010404@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6.28-gentoo sources quite sluggish on Dell Inspiron 8100 / 1GHz PIII by Volker Armin Hemmann
1 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
2 > On Donnerstag 22 Januar 2009, Dan Farrell wrote:
3 >
4 >> Hi all,
5 >>
6 >> I recently updated my dell Inspirion 8100's software after I found to
7 >> my suprise I could no longer play video fast enough to watch. I did a
8 >> kernel upgrade from 2.6.24 to 2.6.28, with a number of
9 >> reconfigurations, including moving from madwifi to in-kernel ath5k.
10 >> Also updated nvidia-drivers to go along with the new system.
11 >>
12 >> Now my system is extremely sluggish. It updates the screen very slowly
13 >> in X and CPU performance is noticably slower without X running too.
14 >> WiFi speed is dismal.
15 >>
16 >> I tried to remove all cruft and extras from the kernel, but I haven't
17 >> managed to improve matters yet. Since it now takes hours to update the
18 >> system, I was hoping someone might have and idea as to what the cause
19 >> of the slowdown might be.
20 >>
21 >> Sound Familiar? Any guesses?
22 >>
23 >
24 > group scheduling? get rid of it.
25 >
26 >
27 >
28 >
29
30 I have been using 2.6.23 kernel for a while for the same reason. I'm
31 going to check my config now.
32
33 Dale
34
35 :-) :-)

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Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6.28-gentoo sources quite sluggish on Dell Inspiron 8100 / 1GHz PIII Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@×××××.com>