On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 11:26:20PM +0100, Denny Schierz wrote: > now it is time again. A Gentoo System (1.4) compiled on a Celeron > 1100Mhz is with KDE slow again (slow konqueror, mouse moving etc.) (the > user don't use gnome, icewm or whatever). I wrote times ago (Supject P3 > feels like an p300). I don't know why, the CPU is never higher than > 5-6%, ram (128SDRam) he has around 60MB free and Swap ~1,3Gig.
What is the kernel you are running? Did you see any disk activity during these slow periods? I'm asking because I saw similar behavior with vanilla kernels (with no preemption and latency patchs) and I/O bound processes like running updatedb or makewhatis in the background. -- Hamilton Coutinho [EMAIL PROTECTED] Porto Alegre - RS - Brasil -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
