Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6.13 is 10x slower than 2.6.12!
some time ago i had issue like yours that was caused by broken fonts configuration try this: boot without X launch top see anything taking resources launch X see anything taking resources look in logs m At 05:41 2005.09.27., you wrote: I just compiled 2.6.13-gentoo-r2 with mostly the same options as 2.6.12-gentoo-r7 (my reference point). The first time I booted, it took about 10-15 minutes on my 3GHz P4 laptop! I watched the gdm background slowly display over about 30 seconds. I thought it might have something to do with the new default timer frequency, which I set to 250Hz instead of 1000Hz (which is the default for pre 2.6.13 kernels). According to various online sites, 250Hz should still be just as usable, and may even use less power, increasing my battery performance... So I changed the timer frequency back to 1000Hz, recompiled and now it seems a little faster, but no where near 2.6.12. It now boots in maybe 5 minutes, and the gdm theme takes about 5s to display. glxgears (not maximised) gives me about 30 fps with a radeon 9700! I checked the frequency governor, and the default is still 'performance'. /proc/acpi/processor/CPU0/throttling shows the maximum frequency is active as per normal. Other kernel options I changed are: - support for software suspend added (could this be it? I definitely saw the message that no valid suspend was found in my swapfile, and /proc/swaps shows that I have swap enabled as per usual) - removed unnecessary SCSI drivers (I don't have anything SCSI) - removed SATA support (I definitely don't have SATA) Info: Dell Ispiron 9100, 3 GHz HT Pentium 4 2.6.12 and 2.6.13: SMP support for 2 processors included I've seen 1 post online about the same thing - slow running 2.6.13, so surely there must be some people in the world running it ok! Any help on this would be appreciated. TIA, -- Iain Buchanan [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6.13 is 10x slower than 2.6.12!
On Wed, 2005-09-28 at 16:16 +0300, Martins wrote: some time ago i had issue like yours that was caused by broken fonts configuration try this: boot without X launch top see anything taking resources launch X see anything taking resources thanks for the suggestion, but it definitely wasn't anything to do with X. The slowness started from the very beginning of boot, right from when the kernel was loaded. All the services and loading of modules took a Very Long Time! I did infact look at top, but the system was mostly idle. This is what made me think it was a kernel issue. Plus, my fans weren't running, as they would be if there was something taking up cpu resources. look in logs I didn't think of that!! Maybe there's something in dmesg that will give me a clue... Thanks, -- Iain Buchanan [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6.13 is 10x slower than 2.6.12!
On 9/26/05, Iain Buchanan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just compiled 2.6.13-gentoo-r2 with mostly the same options as 2.6.12-gentoo-r7 (my reference point). The first time I booted, it took about 10-15 minutes on my 3GHz P4 laptop! I watched the gdm background slowly display over about 30 seconds. Hi, Cannot be a generic problem. I'm running 2.6.13-gentoo-r2 on both my 32-bit and 64-bit machines. Seems pretty much like my other kernels. - Mark -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6.13 is 10x slower than 2.6.12!
On Mon, 2005-09-26 at 19:52 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: On 9/26/05, Iain Buchanan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just compiled 2.6.13-gentoo-r2 with mostly the same options as 2.6.12-gentoo-r7 (my reference point). The first time I booted, it took about 10-15 minutes on my 3GHz P4 laptop! I watched the gdm background slowly display over about 30 seconds. Cannot be a generic problem. I'm running 2.6.13-gentoo-r2 on both my 32-bit and 64-bit machines. Seems pretty much like my other kernels. Can I ask laptop or desktop, and what brand? Can anyone else confirm 2.6.13 running ok on a Dell laptop? thanks, -- Iain Buchanan [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6.13 is 10x slower than 2.6.12!
On 9/26/05, Iain Buchanan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2005-09-26 at 19:52 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: On 9/26/05, Iain Buchanan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just compiled 2.6.13-gentoo-r2 with mostly the same options as 2.6.12-gentoo-r7 (my reference point). The first time I booted, it took about 10-15 minutes on my 3GHz P4 laptop! I watched the gdm background slowly display over about 30 seconds. Cannot be a generic problem. I'm running 2.6.13-gentoo-r2 on both my 32-bit and 64-bit machines. Seems pretty much like my other kernels. Can I ask laptop or desktop, and what brand? Can anyone else confirm 2.6.13 running ok on a Dell laptop? thanks, Compaq R3070us 3GHz laptop Asus/Via A7V266-E desktop Emachines P4 3GHz desktop Asus/Nvidia A8N-E 3GHz AMD64 desktop -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
